Digital arterial occlusion in scleroderma: is there a role for digital arterial reconstruction?

A 47-year-old patient with Raynaud's phenomenon secondary to scleroderma developed long finger ischaemic pain. This was successfully treated with a palmar sympathectomy and a long finger digital artery reconstruction using a reversed small calibre vein graft between a perforator from the deep palmar arch and the radial digital artery at the level of the distal interphalangeal joint. Copyright 2000 The British Society for Surgery of the Hand.