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Alternate Names : Pallor, Skin Pale or Gray

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What to Expect at your Health Care Provider's Office

The medical history will be obtained and a physical examination performed.

Medical history questions documenting your pallor in detail may include:

time pattern
- Did it develop suddenly?
- Did it develop in response to reminders of a traumatic event?
location
- Is it all over (generalized)?
- Is it only in one location?
  - What location?
other
- What other symptoms are also present?
- Is there pain in an affected body part?
- Is there shortness of breath?
- Is there blood in the stool?
- Are you vomiting blood?
- Is there a pale arm or hand, or leg or foot, and the pulse cannot be felt in the area?

Diagnostic tests that may be performed include:

extremity arteriography (if pallor is localized)
blood studies (CBC or blood differential)

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Diseases & Conditions

• Anemia
• Cancer
• Hypoglycemia

Tests & Exams

• Blood Differential
• CBC
• Extremity Arteriography
• Pulse

Other Topics

• Bleeding
• Bloody or Tarry Stools
• Breathing Difficulty
• Chronic
• Fainting
• Frostbite
• Mucosa
• Shock
• Subcutaneous
• Traumatic Event
• Vomiting Blood

Review Date : 10/27/2003
Reviewed By : Jeffrey Drayer, M.D., Dermatologist, Los Angeles, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.

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