Phlebectasia as a cause of intermittent cervical mass

Abstract

Phlebectasia is an abnormal sacculofusiform dilatation, usually unilateral, which may affect any vein. It is infradiagnosed as it is generally asymptomatic. Sometimes it is diagnosed during the study of an intermittent mass. Phlebectasia of internal jugular vein is a rare disease, which mostly involved only the right side and it usually is a childhood disease. Its treatment is controversial. Nowadays a conservative approach to unilateral or bilateral asymptomatic phlebectasia is recommended. Symptomatic phlebectasia requires surgery. We present a case of a bilateral phlebectasia in a 23-month-old male child.