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REPORT OF A CASE

PAUL M. LEVIN, M.D.; PAUL C. BUCY, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1936;57(4):787-790.

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Proliferation of the intima of the peripheral veins is a condition to which little attention has been directed in clinical medicine. The reason for this is readily understood when one reads in an eminent and authoritative system of internal medicine¹ that the disease (phlebosclerosis) produces no clinical symptoms. The few notes that appear in the literature deal mainly with a pathologic description of the lesions.

The term "phlebosclerosis," commonly used for this condition, suggests that the pathologic alteration in the veins is comparable to that seen in the arteries in arteriosclerosis. For this reason we prefer to call it "proliferative endophlebitis," although the condition does not appear to be inflammatory. "Proliferative endophlebosis" would perhaps be more accurate, since the term is noncommital as to etiology, but it does not sound well.

The purpose of this communication is to report a case in which there was presented a clinical syndrome . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Division of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the University of Chicago Clinics.

Footnotes
Presented before the Chicago Pathological Society on Feb. 11, 1935.

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