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SENILE TIBIAL NODULES
Author(s) -
Young Alex W.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1968.tb02768.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , pathogenesis , disease , surgery , pathology , optics , physics
A bstract In a series of 462 geriatric patients, 22 had senile tibial nodules. The incidence, clinical appearance and diagnosis are discussed. The nodules are split‐pea sized, palpable but rarely visible lesions found in the tibial fat in older geriatric women. Although the pathogenesis cannot be firmly established, they may be related to underlying progressive vascular disease.