Popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with Baker cysts: report of 3 cases

Three pediatric patients with different illnesses leading to knee arthritis and large Baker cysts and additional calf swelling are reported. Calf swelling was due to true popliteal venous thrombosis and not to the much more common cause of pseudothrombophlebitis. Careful ultrasound examination can d...

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Autores principales: Dressler, Frank, Wermes, Cornelia, Schirg, Eckart, Thon, Angelika
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18652677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-12
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author Dressler, Frank
Wermes, Cornelia
Schirg, Eckart
Thon, Angelika
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description Three pediatric patients with different illnesses leading to knee arthritis and large Baker cysts and additional calf swelling are reported. Calf swelling was due to true popliteal venous thrombosis and not to the much more common cause of pseudothrombophlebitis. Careful ultrasound examination can differentiate these two causes of calf swelling. Even though all our patients had risk factors for thrombophilia, we do not recommend routine thrombophilia work-up for all arthritis patients in the absence of thrombosis.
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spelling pubmed-25333072008-09-11 Popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with Baker cysts: report of 3 cases Dressler, Frank Wermes, Cornelia Schirg, Eckart Thon, Angelika Pediatr Rheumatol Online J Case Report Three pediatric patients with different illnesses leading to knee arthritis and large Baker cysts and additional calf swelling are reported. Calf swelling was due to true popliteal venous thrombosis and not to the much more common cause of pseudothrombophlebitis. Careful ultrasound examination can differentiate these two causes of calf swelling. Even though all our patients had risk factors for thrombophilia, we do not recommend routine thrombophilia work-up for all arthritis patients in the absence of thrombosis. BioMed Central 2008-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2533307/ /pubmed/18652677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-12 Text en Copyright © 2008 Dressler et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Thon, Angelika
Popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with Baker cysts: report of 3 cases
title Popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with Baker cysts: report of 3 cases
title_full Popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with Baker cysts: report of 3 cases
title_fullStr Popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with Baker cysts: report of 3 cases
title_full_unstemmed Popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with Baker cysts: report of 3 cases
title_short Popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with Baker cysts: report of 3 cases
title_sort popliteal venous thrombosis in juvenile arthritis with baker cysts: report of 3 cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18652677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-6-12
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