Smoker’s Hand: When Fingers Turn White

A smoker has a four-year history of blanching fingers in the cold. Learn about this vaso-occlusive disease of the extremities strongly linked to Tobacco.

Thromboangiitis obliterans


This smoker presented with a four-year history of blanching of the fingers on exposure to cold. What is the diagnosis?

What is the most likely diagnosis?

Thromboangiitis obliterans
Marantic endocarditis
Kawasaki disease
Brachial entrapment syndrome
Takayasu’s arteritis

Buerger’s disease, Raynaud’s Phenomenon, Smoking, Thromboangiitis obliterans, Vasculitis

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