Flebitis séptica: origen de cuadros sépticos graves / Septic phlebitis: report of two cases

We report two patients, an 82 yeers old female and a 71 years old male, who bad a severe sepis with positive blood cultures for Staphylococcus aureis and a superficial phlebitis as the only probable focus. In both, the diagnosis of septic phlebitis was reached and an emergency phlebotomy was performed under local anaesthesia. The clinical response was satÝsfactory and the pathological examination of excised veins showed an acute exudative leukocytic thrombophlebitis