Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 88, Issue 3 151-152, Copyright © 1995 by Royal Society of Medicine
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JP McFarlane and RJ Williams
Department of Surgery, Middlesex Hospital, London, UK.
Ischaemic rest pain affecting the lower limb is characteristically constant, severe and distressing. Attention is thereby concentrated on the affected leg and its vascular supply which may distract the attending clinician from a precipitating cause. We present two patients with shock that led to acute onset of ischaemic leg pain.