CHRONIC TRENCH FOOT: A STUDY OF 100 CASES
Authors: W REDISCH, O BRANDMAN, S RAINONE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1951)

Article1 May 1951CHRONIC TRENCH FOOT: A STUDY OF 100 CASESWALTER REDISCH, M.D., F.A.C.P., OTTO BRANDMAN, M.D., SALVATORE RAINONE, M.D.WALTER REDISCH, M.D., F.A.C.P., OTTO BRANDMAN, M.D., SALVATORE RAINONE, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-34-5-1163 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptINTRODUCTIONTrench (immersion) foot may be considered a form of frostbite, i.e., a response of living tissues to injury by cold. Understanding of the basic changes taking place in the acute phase of trench foot, and the logical conclusions as to treatment of this phase, have been greatly clarified by excellent bulletins from the Surgeon General's Office and by the work of White,1Ungley and Blackwood,2Lange, Weiner and Boyd3and others. Silverman4has given an interesting report on cases of subacute trench foot. Except for experimental work by Burch and associates,5and a preliminary report by one of us,6...Bibliography1. White JC: Immersion foot, Mod. Concepts Cardiovas. Dis. 13: 2, 1944. Google Scholar2. UngleyBlackwood CCW: Peripheral vasoneuropathy after chilling (immersion foot and immersion hand), Lancet 1: 447, 1942. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. LangeWeinerBoyd KDLJ: Frostbite, New England J. Med. 237: 11, 1947. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. Silverman JJ: An inquiry into the incidence of hyperhidrosis in convalescent trench foot, Ann. Int. Med. 25: 702, 1946. LinkGoogle Scholar5. BurchMyersPorterSchaffer GEHLRRN: Objective studies of some psychologic responses in chronic trench foot, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 801: 1, 1947. Google Scholar6. Redisch W: Chronic trench foot: a problem in the care of World War II veterans, Mil. Surgeon 101: 509, 1947. MedlineGoogle Scholar7. Homans J: Circulatory disease of the extremities, 1939, Macmillan, New York. Google Scholar8. Kramer DW: Manual of peripheral vascular disorders, 1940, Blakiston, Philadelphia. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. Redisch W: Differential diagnoses of peripheral vascular diseases, J. M. Soc. New Jersey 46: 238, 1949. MedlineGoogle Scholar10. Stein ID: Physical medicine and cold injury of limb, Arch. Phys. Med. 28: 348, 1947. MedlineGoogle Scholar11. WhiteWarren JCS: Causes of pain in feet after prolonged immersion in cold water, War Med. 5: 6, 1943. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication November 11, 1949.This paper is published with permission of the Chief Medical Director, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration, who assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed or conclusions drawn by the authors. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byA review of trench foot: a disease of the past in the presentTrench FootKrankheiten der Gefäße 1 May 1951Volume 34, Issue 5Page: 1163-1168KeywordsSurgeonsSurgery Issue Published: 1 May 1951 PDF downloadLoading ...