[Chilblains]

Abstract

Chilblain is a frostbite, it belongs to the vascular acrosyndromes by the mere fact of symmetrical lesions and to the dystrophic group by its organic obstructive and thrombotic microangiopathy, especially of venules. Chilblain is conditional on a dysesthesia for cold, diagnosis is easy if in the know, prognosis as usual good and treatment must be more preventive than curative.