title: Deep Vein Thrombosis of the Left Lower Limb in a 12 Year-Old Female Child with Ulcerative Colitis - Case Report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Inflammatory bowel disease includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  This case report presents a patient with ulcerative colitis, with thrombotic complication of the left common iliac vein that occurred at the age of 11, two years after diagnosis. After a year of anticoagulation and compression therapy, although exacerbations of underlying disease occurred in the first 6 months of treatment, there was no recurrence of deep venous thrombosis, partial recanalization within affected venous system has been achieved and the patient is remission of ulcerative colitis for the last six months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In children, thromboembolic complications occur about 7 times less often than in adults, but increases in the case of hospitalized children. In children with IBD this complication can occur independently og disease activity even in patients with any other risk factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Gastroenterologu and Nutrition, Medical University, Wrocław, Poland.
authors.forename: Elżbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krzesiek
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Medical University, Wrocław, Poland.
authors.forename: Urszula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Zaleska-Dorobisz
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Medical University, Wrocław, Poland.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Iwańczak
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular, General and Transplant Surggery, Medical University, Wrocław, Poland.
authors.forename: Andrzej T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Dorobisz
keywords: Colitis, Ulcerative; Only Child; Venous Thrombosis