phlegmasia

At this stage it is called phlegmasia cerulea dolens.

"Phlegmasia alba dolens" literally means "painful white edema".

Two of their HIT patients developed phlegmasia cerulea dolens that went on to become gangrenous.

A severe and uncommon form of DVT, phlegmasia cerulea dolens, may develop in association with a life-threatening illness.

Phlegmasia alba dolens (also colloquially known as milk leg or white leg) is part of a spectrum of diseases related to deep vein thrombosis.

Haimovici, H. Ischemic forms of venous thrombosis: phlegmasia cerulea dolens, venous gangrene.

Phlegmasia alba dolens is distinguished, clinically, from phlegmasia cerulea dolens in that there is no ischemia.

Phlegmasia cerulea dolens (literally: painful blue edema) is an uncommon severe form of deep venous thrombosis which results from extensive thrombotic occlusion (blockage by a blood clot) of the major and the collateral veins of an extremity.

On occasion, new mothers have a condition called phlegmasia alba dolens (phlegmasia - inflammation, alba - white, dolens - pain), which sounds much less threatening when a physician refers to it as milk leg.