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Venous Occlusion Secondary to Subluxation of the Shoulder — A Case Report

State University of New York at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York

Rashmikant Doshi

Department of Medicine of the Coney Island Hospital

Rajendra Patel

Department of Medicine of the Coney Island Hospital

Reza Hedayati

Department of Medicine of the Coney Island Hospital

This is the case report of an eighty-seven-year-old woman who was seen be cause of swelling of her left upper extremity and breast of one week's duration. She had a history of severe arthritis of the knees and had been wheelchair-bound for seven years. Venography showed compression of the cephalic vein and throm bosis of the distal basilic vein with extension into the axillary and subclavian veins. To the author's knowledge, this is the first case report of venous throm bosis in association with subluxation of the shoulder.

Angiology, Vol. 43, No. 10, 866-868 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979204301010


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