[Paget-von Schroetter syndrome. Therapeutic possibilities, early and late results]

33 patients were treated for Paget-von Schroetter syndrome at the Surgical Department of the Medical Academy of Magdeburg, between 1975 and 1985. The therapeutic concepts were based on streptokinase, thrombectomy, heparin treatment or combinations of these. Phlebography and clinical follow-up checks were used to compare early results with late results (between one and nine years from therapy). The functional results were generally good, but they did not correlate in all cases with findings of patency of the lower veins in the upper extremity. Streptokinase, as compared to thrombosis of the lower extremity, should be therapeutically used with some caution.