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Venous Stars in Mediastinal Disease
HERBERT L. FRED, M.D.;
C. HILMON CASTLE, M.D.;
PASQUALE A. CANCILLA, M.D.
Arch Intern Med. 1962;109(3):290-296.
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Alterations in the skin may be the first or the most striking manifestation of an internal disease. This fact is exemplified at times by erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis, facial flush in metastatic carcinoid, and xanthomata with hyperpigmentation in biliary cirrhosis. Any list of cutaneous "signatures" also should include venous stars. These structures, occasionally referred to as venules, varicules, or venous telangiectases, are small, dilated, superficial cutaneous veins. Although venous stars may have great clinical significance, they have received little attention in medical writings. The purpose of this report is to describe 2 patients in whom the appearance of venous stars over the chest constituted the first objective evidence of obstruction of the veins of the superior mediastinum.
Report of Cases
Case 1.—
This 60-year-old man was admitted to the Salt Lake County General Hospital on April 2, 1961, because of hemoptysis of 2 weeks' duration.
Four months before admission the
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Author Affiliations
SALT LAKE CITY
Departments of Internal Medicine and Pathology, University of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City.; Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of Utah College of Medicine, now Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (Dr. Fred); Assistant Professor of Medicine, and Director, Division of Postgraduate Education, University of Utah College of Medicine (Dr. Castle); Resident, Department of Pathology, University of Utah College of Medicine (Dr. Cancilla).
Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 25, 1961.
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