Hallux amputation in combination with a lumbar sympathectomy for treatment of a non-healing ulceration in a patient with Buerger's disease

J Foot Ankle Surg. 1996 Jul-Aug;35(4):339-43. doi: 10.1016/s1067-2516(96)80084-6.

Abstract

Buerger's disease is a distal vascular occlusive disease primarily affecting those with a history of tobacco use. Treatment of digital pathology can be quite difficult as a result. This paper discusses a patient who developed an ulceration of the left hallux that did not respond to local wound care and antibiosis. A lumbar sympathectomy was performed in conjunction with a hallux amputation to promote distal vasodilation and enhance the patient's ability to heal.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Amputation, Surgical / methods
  • Angiography
  • Hallux / diagnostic imaging
  • Hallux / physiopathology
  • Hallux / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Lumbosacral Region
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Osteomyelitis / complications
  • Osteomyelitis / physiopathology
  • Osteomyelitis / therapy
  • Skin Ulcer / pathology*
  • Skin Ulcer / physiopathology
  • Sympathectomy*
  • Thromboangiitis Obliterans / complications
  • Thromboangiitis Obliterans / therapy*