title: [Budd-Chiari syndrome in 16 year old girl with essential thrombocytosis].
abstract: Vein thrombosis is a rare disorder diagnosed in childhood. The principal causes of this illness are inborn thrombophilias, essential thrombocytosis, neoplasms, autoimmunologic diseases and pathologic reaction to certain drugs. Budd-Chiari syndrome, a hepatic vein occlusion is an atypical manifestation of vein thrombosis. Due to the abundant symptomatology, interdisciplinary diagnostic procedures and serious prognosis the Budd-Chiari syndrome is a challenge for contemporary medicine. We present a 16 years old girl with essential thrombocytosis, the complicated by hepatic vein thrombosis.
authors: Klinika Pediatrii, Hematologii, Onkologii i Endokrynologii Gdańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego, ul. Dębinki 7, 80-952 Gdańsk. marekwlazlowski@gmail.com
authors: Marek
authors: M
authors: Wlazłowski
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Kaczorowska-Hać
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Klukowska
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Balcerska
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D013920:Thrombocythemia, Essential / Q000150:complications*