Buerger's disease or thromboangiitis obliterans with involvement of small arteries of the upper and lower extremities usually afflicts young male smokers, but this report presents a middle-aged female nonsmoker with diabetes mellitus who satisfied clinical, angiographic, and histologic criteria for the diagnosis of Buerger's disease.
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