Medical treatment of a central vein suppurative thrombosis with cerebral metastatic abcesses in a burned child

A 2-year-old girl admitted with third degree burns (35% TBSA) received 7 we eks poly-antibiotictherapy combined with heparin for a severe Methicillin-r esistant Staphylococcus aureus sepsis with multiple metastatic abcesses (lu ng, skin, brain), from a suppurative thrombophlebitis of the right jugulari s interna, extended to the axillary and cava superior veins. Surgical treat ment was contraindicated by the local extension. The child was discharged w ithout major neurological sequelae 3 months after admission. (C) 2001 Elsev ier Science Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.