Phlebitis Migrans: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Cardiovascular (I00-I99).

  • Mondor’s disease (synonyms: Mondor’s disease; iron wire phlebitis; phlebitis Mondor) – Thrombophlebitis of the thoracoepigastric veins or their branches on the front of the thorax (chest). This may also affect the mammae (breasts); clinically there are pressure painful strands
  • Thrombangiitis obliterans (synonyms: endarteritis obliterans, Winiwarter-Buerger disease, Von Winiwarter-Buerger disease, thrombangitis obliterans) – vasculitis (vascular disease) associated with recurrent (recurring) arterial and venous thrombosis (blood clot (thrombus) in a blood vessel); symptoms: Exercise-induced pain, acrocyanosis (blue discoloration of body appendages), and trophic disturbances (necrosis/tissue damage resulting from cell death and gangrene of fingers and toes in advanced stages); more or less symmetrical occurrence; young patients (< 45 years).
  • Varicosis (varicose veins)
  • Lymphangitis (inflammation of lymphatic vessels)
  • Deep vein thrombosis of the leg (TBVT)
  • Varicophlebitis – inflammation of a varicose vein.

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).