PSEUDOTHROMBOPHLEBITIS IN AN ADOLESCENT WITHOUT RHEUMATIC DISEASE - ACASE-REPORT

Pseudothrombophlebitis syndrome is the occurrence of calf pain and swe lling caused by extrinsic compression of the popliteal vessels by an e nlarging Baker's cyst or by calf inflammation that occurs as the resul t of a ruptured Baker's cyst. Few cases of pseudothrombophlebitis synd rome have been reported in patients less than 18 years of age, and nea rly all these young patients had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Report ed here is the case of a 17-year-old male patient without rheumatic di sease who presented to the outpatient clinic with a 1-week history of an increasingly painful swelling of the right calf without any history of precipitating factors for a deep vein thrombosis.