Inflammatory finger vascular obstructions as one of the possible causes of complications of panaritiums

: Vascular insufficiency may complicate chronic digital infection. The reasons for this are twofold: firstly the oedema associated with chronic inflammation causes venous obstruction and this may lead to arterial occlusion. This report has also shown that a second cause of vascular insufficiency may result from direct damage to the vessel walls by the invading organisms, which leads to infectious thrombosis, particularly of the venous structures.