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C. D. BUSSEY, M.D., M.S.

AMA Arch Surg. 1955;71(5):688-693.

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Thrombosis within mesenteric veins is often associated with other primary abdominal pathology, such as suppurative disease, volvulus, strangulated hernia, congestive splenomegalia, neoplastic disease, cirrhosis of the liver, and trauma.* Mesenteric venous thrombosis which appears to be primary and without known cause, while less frequent, also occurs. In a postmortem study of 99 patients with mesenteric venous occlusion due to thrombosis by Johnson and Baggenstoss,¹ there were 8 cases in which no etiologic factor was evident, but these cases were not discussed in detail. In 1950, Berry and Bougas² presented 13 instances of primary mesenteric venous thrombosis in 12 patients with 4 survivals, 1 with two episodes. The latter article is distinctive in that mesenteric venous thrombosis is discussed in pure form, which adds emphasis to Warren and Eberhard's³ suggestion that mesenteric venous thrombosis is a distinct entity separate from mesenteric arterial thrombosis.

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Author Affiliations
Dallas, Texas

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 29, 1955.

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