Liver infarction and acrodermatitis enteropathica are rare complications of chronic pancreatitis. This report shows the case of a 56-year-old man who developed liver infarction due to portal vein thrombosis from chronic pancreatitis and acrodermatitis enteropathica during the course of his treatment. The rare combination of these complications in a patient with chronic pancreatitis has never pr...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common type of malignancy in the female population, rarely is reported by thromboembolic events during the course of the disease. In this case, we present a rare case of breast cancer presenting as deep vein thrombosis of the axillary vein.Case Presentation: A 40-year- old female was admitted due to pain and swelling of her right arm and forearm of two mont...

known to cause multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms (PAAs) and venous thrombosis (1, 2). The patients can develop massive hemoptysis and the disorder can result in death. Although the use of systemic corticosteroids with a combination of immunosuppressants has been the mainstay of treatment, interventional treatments are required for a life-threatening hemoptysis. However, a thrombosis in the ce...

the main goal of this report was to share with clinicians an atypical presentation of pulmonary thromboembolism (pte) in a young male`s post-appendectomy, whom he had no significant predisposing factors for such disease. the case also introduced for re-examining the challenges of pte clinical manifestations which may mimic other differential diagnosis. pte is an abrupt blockage of the pulmonary...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to analyze characteristics of patients with bilateral internal jugular vein thrombosis in our department during a 1-year period. Internal jugular vein thrombosis refers to an intraluminal thrombus occurring anywhere from the intracranial internal jugular vein to the junction of the internal jugular vein and the subclavian vein, which form the brachiocephalic ...

Deep vein thrombosis is a common disease among Caucasians but is rare in Asia. Venous thrombosis may be fatal, for example by a pulmonary embolism and right or left atrial thrombosis. Alternatively, deep vein thrombosis may follow a benign pattern such as femoral and popliteal vein thrombosis. Theories abound regarding the causes of deep vein thrombosis, with the most common theories being long...

budd-chiari syndrome (bcs) refers to thrombosis of hepatic veins as well as intrahepatic or suprahepatic inferior vena cava. we present for the first time a case of possible occurrence of budd- chiari syndrome with the history of depot medroxy progesterone acetate (dmpa) injections in a 33-yearold iranian woman. an underlying disorder can be identified in most of patients with bcs. many of thes...

Venous thrombosis can complicate inflammatory bowel diseases, both in adult and pediatric patients, and a few adult cases of thrombotic storm, ie, thrombosis at multiple sites occurring over a period of a few days to a few weeks, have been described. However, venous thrombosis as the first manifestation of an inflammatory bowel disease is extremely rare. We report the case of a 14-year-old girl...

Received 4/6/2006; revised 4/26/2006; accepted 4/28/2006. For correspondence or reprints contact: Wan-Yu Lin, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital. 160 Section 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)4-23741348, E-mail: [email protected] We present a case of a 54 year-old woman who had left lower limb swelling. She rece...