Nineteen-year-old female with idiopathic thrombosis of the internal jugular vein

Abstract

Internal jugular vein thrombosis is a rarely seen condition which may be due to infection or neoplastic, thrombophilic, traumatic or iatrogenic causes. If the thrombosis in the jugular vein leads to pulmonary embolism, septic emboli or atrial or dural sinus thrombosis, it may be life-threatening. We report a successfully treated case of a 19-year-old female patient presenting with swelling and neck pain who was diagnosed with a stepwise approach of this rare condition.

Treatment of idiopathic internal jugular vein thrombosis in a healthy woman with enoxaparin and rivaroxiban: Case report and literature narrative review

“…All cases with a diagnosis of internal jugular vein thrombosis (with or without clinical signs), were included in this report [ [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] ]. We excluded cases if the abstracts had deficient clinical data.…”

Thrombosis of the internal jugular vein

“…In the case of our patient, venous phase contrast enhancement was utilized to aid in identification of neoplasms and soft tissue infections amidst the complex array of tissue planes in the neck [3,4]. Furthermore, we reasoned that the addition of venous phase contrast would aid in the identification of vascular thrombosis that was ultimately determined to be the cause of this patient's symptoms [4,5]. We propose that physicians treating patients presenting with headache and inability to move their necks should broaden their differential diagnosis beyond acute bleeding and osseous injury and, therefore, consider neck CT scan with contrast enhancement to evaluate for additional disease entities including infection, neoplasm, and vascular dissection or thrombosis.…”