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Leg Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Bone/Joint Causes of Leg Pain:
 • Fracture
 • Arthritis
 • Gout/pseudogout
Leg Pain - Differential ... Diagnosis Framework ... Pain: • DVT ... Causes of Leg Pain ... Wounds/ulcers, Edema
Venous Ulcer and DVT: Chronic venous insufficiency with additional swelling caused by acute DVT.
There is also
There is also skin ... and superimposed infection ... Images #Clinical #Photo ... #Leg #Chronic # ... Insufficiency #Edema
Necrotizing Fasciitis: African-American patient with diabetes that predisposed him to rapidly 
progressive infection. Lower extremity is
As the infection ... occurs deep to the skin ... of illness and pain ... Images #Clinical #Photo ... #Dermatology #Leg
Phlegmasia Alba Dolens

This condition is also known as “milk leg,” especially as it affects women in
known as “milk leg ... • "Milk leg or ... white leg" • ... • Edema, pain ... #photo
Phlegmasia Alba Dolens

This condition is also known as “milk leg,” especially as it affects women in
known as “milk leg ... • "Milk leg or ... white leg" • ... • Edema, pain ... #photo
Necrotizing Fasciitis: Note the extensive edema, erythema, bullae formation, and necrosis in this patient's thigh. At
the extensive edema ... failure) with severe pain ... at the site of infection ... right demonstrates leg ... Images #Clinical #Photo
Caustic Ingestion

Extent Of injury by caustic agents determined by 
• Duration ot tissue contact 
• Ability
tract • Severe pain ... Epiglottitis, laryngeal edema ... decreased vision Skin ... face, chest, and legs ... #Emergency #Diagnosis
Orthopedic Emergencies
Compartment Syndrome
 • An increase in compartment pressure to the point where tissue perfusion is
- Ensure leg ... progressive inflammatory infection ... • Diagnosis: ... - Intense pain ... myalgia - Edema
Majocchi’s Granuloma due to Trichophyton rubrum 
This is GMS stain and culture of a skin biopsy
from a patient’s leg ... heart Tx: painless leg ... No pain. ... lesions in left leg ... rubrum #clinical #photo