Papillophlebitis associated with systemic thrombophlebitis: case report

This 36-year-old white man developed signs and symptoms of mild reversible papillophlebitis associated with calf thrombophlebitis and subsequent mammary and antecubital vein phlebitis after fluorescein angiography.This in flammatory process in conjunction with phlebitis elsewhere in the body strongly suggests that localized phlebitis of the central retinal vein, perhaps near its exit from the optic nerve, is etiologic in papillophlebitis. Response to corticosteroids tends to support this theory.