Occlusive Phlebitis in Multifocal Fibrosclerosis

摘要: Multifocal fibrosclerosis, as the name implies, concerns disseminated fibrous processes that manifest Riedel’s thyroiditis, idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis, mediastinal sclerosing cholangitis, and pseudotumor of orbit. Certain cases fibrosis parotid gland, lacrimal glands, lung may belong in same category. The two patients with one whom also had are described. Unusual changes small middle-sized veins tissue thyroid retroperitoneum, best designated “occlusive phlebitis,” seem to be characteristic multifocal fibrosclerosis. They contribute disease process.