패혈증을 동반한 외경정맥 혈전혈관염 치험 1예

Abstract

Septic thrombophlebitis results from extensive infection of the lateral pharyngeal space to the jugular vein and generaly occurs in healthy adolescents and young adults. This disease can disseminate to multiple distant sites such as joint, liver, kidney, eye, bone, good diagnostic methods for external jugular vein thrombophlebitis (EJVT). Treatment of EJVT includes intravenous antibiotics and surgical drainage of abscess, ligation or excision of the jugular vein, in adition to fibrinolytic agents and anticoagulants. With a review of literature, authors report a case of external jugular vein thrombophlebitis with sepsis which has successfully been ma-naged by ligation and excision of the vein. (Korean J Otolaryngol 2003 ;46 :440-3)