Traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling Mondor's disease: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Mondor's disease is a peculiar form of thrombophlebitis, involving a superficial vein in the subcutaneous fat of the breast or anterior chest wall. CASE PRESENTATION: The author presents a case of a 35-year-old male Japanese patient with cord-like induration in the right lateral t...

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Autor principal: Kondo, Takeshi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21450061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-127
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description INTRODUCTION: Mondor's disease is a peculiar form of thrombophlebitis, involving a superficial vein in the subcutaneous fat of the breast or anterior chest wall. CASE PRESENTATION: The author presents a case of a 35-year-old male Japanese patient with cord-like induration in the right lateral thoracic wall. This lesion was diagnosed as traumatic funicular phlebitis, resembling Mondor's disease. CONCLUSION: Traumatic funicular phlebitis, resembling Mondor's disease, is a clinical entity which may give suggestive insight to the etiology of Mondor's disease itself.
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spelling pubmed-30808312011-04-22 Traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling Mondor's disease: a case report Kondo, Takeshi J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Mondor's disease is a peculiar form of thrombophlebitis, involving a superficial vein in the subcutaneous fat of the breast or anterior chest wall. CASE PRESENTATION: The author presents a case of a 35-year-old male Japanese patient with cord-like induration in the right lateral thoracic wall. This lesion was diagnosed as traumatic funicular phlebitis, resembling Mondor's disease. CONCLUSION: Traumatic funicular phlebitis, resembling Mondor's disease, is a clinical entity which may give suggestive insight to the etiology of Mondor's disease itself. BioMed Central 2011-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3080831/ /pubmed/21450061 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-127 Text en Copyright ©2011 Kondo; 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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Traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling Mondor's disease: a case report
title Traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling Mondor's disease: a case report
title_full Traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling Mondor's disease: a case report
title_fullStr Traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling Mondor's disease: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling Mondor's disease: a case report
title_short Traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling Mondor's disease: a case report
title_sort traumatic funicular phlebitis of the thoracic wall resembling mondor's disease: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21450061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-127
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