Symptoma

Mondor Disease

This article describes the case of a man in his twenties, presenting an indolent, restiform swelling of the left chest wall. [online-zfa.com]

The patients usually feel the superficial vein of the penis like a hard rope and present with complaint of pain around this hardness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Severe Pain

    During these stages, the patient should be advised to restrict his sexual activity until the symptoms due to infection if exists, and severe pain disappear. No permanent sequel has been defined in long-term. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Intravenous Drugs

    drugs, and tendency to thrombosis [ 7, 8 ]. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Erythema

    Erythema and edema may be seen on the penile skin. Some patients feel distention on the site of thrombosis. There is usually pain typically exacerbated during erection. Some patients may develop irritative voiding symptoms [ 10, 11 ]. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Suggestibility

    Some findings suggest that it might be of lymphatic origin. The chest, abdominal wall, penis, upper arm, and other parts of the body may also be involved by the disease. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Sexual Dysfunction

    Problems such as anxiety and sexual dysfunction may occur in the patients with penil Mondor’s disease. Thus accurate and rapid diagnosis and treatment is of great importance. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  • Irritability

    Some patients may develop irritative voiding symptoms [ 10, 11 ]. Diagnosis Penil Mondor’s disease may be diagnosed with medical history and physical examination. Color Doppler ultrasound examination is of importance in differential diagnosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Surgical treatment Thrombectomy and resection of the superficial penile vein are applied surgically in the patients refractory to the medical treatment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Fondaparinux in the treatment of lower-limb superficial vein thrombosis. N Engl J Med 2010 ; 363: 1222 – 1232. Google Scholar Crossref Medline ISI [journals.sagepub.com]

Table 1 Causes of penile Mondor’s disease Traumatic etiology Infectious etiology Surgical etiology Oncologic etiology Other • Causes of the disease include frequent, severe, and prolonged sexual intercourse • Syphilis • Repair of inguinal hernia • Cancer [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and management of superficial-vein thrombosis of the legs. Best Pract Res Clin Haematol 2012 ; 25: 275 – 284. Google Scholar Crossref Medline ISI 5. Decousus, H, Prandoni, P, Mismetti, P. CALISTO Study Group. [journals.sagepub.com]

Results Definition and epidemiology Mondor’s disease is thrombophlebitis of the superficial veins and was first defined by Henri Mondor in the superficial veins of the chest wall in 1939 [ 1 ]. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]