title: [Both-sided iliac vein thrombosis in a 18-year old patient with lumbago].
abstract: A MRI of the lumbal spine was performed on a patient with lumbago. Besides the fact of no evidence for a myelopathy caused by a herniated disc a both-sided iliac vein thrombosis could be seen. In further examination the coincidence of a congenital absence of vena cava inferior with distinctive collateral vessel systems over lumbal and spinal veins and heterozygosis for Factor V Leiden abnormality could be identified as cause for thrombosis. It is very likely that symptoms developed as a result of spinal vein hyperplasia and consecutive myelon compression.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Innere Medizin, St. Lukas Klinik GmbH, Schwanenstrasse 132, 42697 Solingen. dr.nowak@netcologne.de
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dietze
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schlichter
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jacoby
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Beckers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D007084:Iliac Vein / Q000473:pathology*; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology*; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*