local malignancy, intravenous drug abuse, hyperhomocysteinemia and central venous access. It is also taken from medical journals that internal jugular vein thrombosis is itself responsible for bringing life threatening complications. Some of the further complications bound with pulmonary embolism, papilledema, airway edema, chylothorax and systemic sepsis. The diagnosis of this disease is at times challenging and requires clinical notion.

Internal jugular vein thrombosis is a condition in which painful intraluminal thrombus taking place from the intracranial internal jugular vein to the intersection of the vein. The thrombosis also becomes infected producing a septic secondarily. The causes of IJ thrombosis include the following:

•  Trauma

•  Association with ovulation induction with gonadotropins

•  Individuals who abuse intravenous drugs using the IJ vein for access

•  Lemierre syndrome

•  Deep neck infections

•  Necrotizing soft tissue infections

•  Hyperhomocysteinemia

•  Neck massage

•  Polycythemia

•  Spontaneous causes - Often secondary to undiagnosed malignancy or hypercoagulable state

•  Central venous or the internal jugular vein catheters

There are subtle percentages which were defined by several doctors after research and they can be the symptoms for the disease. These can make the diagnose quiet easier for the doctors as the manifests are reported to have such percentages during this condition.

The bacterial invasions for the internal jugular vein thrombosis are not well understood yet but usage of intravenous drugs can promote clot formation through vascular damage or local infection or may be through both. Many oropharyngeal infections including sinuses, tonsils and middle ear infections can lead to this condition as well. Neck dissection is followed in the 25% to 30% of the recent cases of internal jugular vein thrombosis.

The treatment for this disease in children is not required and it fades away soon without medication while some children require it. In adults, anti inflammatory steroid medicines are used or in some cases, spleen is removed by surgery. There are plenty of other names of disease but more common names are Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and immune thrombocytopenic purpura or ITP.