IDIOPATHIC RECURRENT THROMBOPHLEBITIS: WITH CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSES AND AN ACUTE SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

Idiopathic recurrent thrombophlebitis is an uncommon but not unfamiliar disease.1Ordinarily this condition begins in men of middle age employed at sedentary tasks. The thrombophlebitis most commonly involves the superficial veins of the extremities, particularly the lower ones, but involvement of deep veins in the extremities and visceral veins is not unknown.2Involvement of the cerebral veins has been suspected,3but so far as we have been able to discover the actual cerebral venous thromboses have never been demonstrated prior to the present report. REPORT OF CASE History.— R. A. P., a man employed in a clerical position, came under the care of one of us (F. J. L.) in 1926 when he was 37. At that time he was suffering from thrombophlebitis in one of his thighs. He had not suffered from illnesses of any moment previously except for pneumonia on the left side, complicated by