Review Article

Venous Adventitial Cystic Disease: A Review of 45 Cases Treated Since 1963

Table 1

Venous adventitial cystic disease demographics.

Author and yearGender, agePhysical signs, DVT symptoms (presence)LocationTreatments used (initial, final)Recurrence (resolution)

Mentha, Switzerland, 1963FM, 30 yoMass (0)SSV (1)CA (1)1
Gomez Ferrer, Spain, 1966M, 43 yoInguinal mass (1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Lavarde, France, 1972M, 43 yoPain (0)PV (1)CE (1)0
Leu et al., Switzerland, 1977FM, 29 yoMass (0)UV (1)CA (1)0
Matsubara et al., 1978M, 57 yo(1)EIV (1)CE (1)0
Chafke et al., 1977M, 57 yo(1)EIV (1)CE (1)0
Frileux et al., 1979FM, 40 yo(1)EIV (1)CE (1)0
Fyfe et al., 1980M, 42 yoInguinal mass (0)CFV (1)CE (1)1
Annets and Graham, 1980FM, 23 yoInguinal mass (1)CFV (1)CE (1)1
Matsubara et al., 1982M, 48 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Ohta et al., 1984M, 48 yoInguinal mass (1)EIV (1)CE (1)0
Ito et al., 1984FM, 55 yo(1)EIV (1)F (1)0
O’Neill et al., 1987M, 61 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Lie et al., 1991M, 40 yoMass (0)SSV (1)CA (1)1
Paty et al., 1992M, 65 yo(1)CFV (1)CA (1)1
Schraverus et al., 1997 [7]M, 56 yo(1)PV (1)VR (1)1
Desjardins et al., 1997 [8]FM, 32 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)1
Yoshii et al., 1998 [9]FM, 75 yoMass (0)GSV (1)CA (1)1
Maldonado et al., 2001FM, 56 yoInguinal mass (1)EIV (1)CE (1)1
Fukui et al., 2004 [10]FM, 32 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Gasparis et al., 2004 [11]M, 37 yo(1)IF (1)TL (1), VR (1)0
Maldonado-Fernández, 2004 [12]FM, 56 yo(1)EIV (1)CE (1)1 (CE)
Sugimoto et al., 2004 [13]FM, 48 yo(1)CFV (1)VR (1)0
Cho and Shin, 2005 [14]M, 52 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Dix et al., 2006 [5]M, 28 yo(1)CFV (1)TL (1), CE (1)0
Sakamoto et al., 2006 [15]FM, 56 yo(1)PV (1)CE (1)0
Desjardins et al., 1997 [8] FM, 48 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
M, 61 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Kohno et al., 2007 [16]FM, 48 yo(1)CFV (1)F (1)0
Zhang et al., 2008 [17]M, 54 yo(1)EIV (1)CE (1)0
Seo et al., 2009 [18]M, 69 yo(1)CFV (1)VR (1)0
Johnson et al., 2009 [19]M, 66 yo(1)CFV (1)CA (1), DS (1)1 (DS)
Morizumi et al., 2010 [20]M, 28 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Jayaraj et al., 2011 [21]M, 36 yo(1)CFV (1)TL (1), VR (1)0
Kwun and Suh, 2011 (2 cases) [3] FM, 54 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
FM, N/A(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Jones et al., 2012 [6]M, 5 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
Park et al., 2013 [4] FM, 50 yo(1)EIV (1)CE (1)0
FM, 32 yo(1)EIV (1)VR (1)0
Michaelides et al., 2014 [22]FM, 51 yo(1)IF (1)VR (1)0
Ann et al., 2015 [23]M, 70 yo(1)EIV (1)CE (1), DS (1)1 (DS)
Chen et al., 2015 [24]M, 58 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
FM, 38 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
M, 47 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0
O'Loghlen et al., 2016 [25]M, 31 yo(1)CFV (1)CE (1)0

CFV: common femoral vein; EIV: external iliac vein; PV: popliteal vein; GSV: great saphenous vein; IF: iliofemoral; SSV: small saphenous vein; UV: ulnar vein (wrist); N/A: not available; (): number of patients.
Symptomology: (0) = indicative of patient lacking the presence of the DVT symptoms/swelling; (1) = presence of DVT symptoms/swelling.
CE: cyst excision/resection (postevacuation); CA: cyst aspiration and drainage; VR: vein resection (with graft placement); F: fenestration; TL: thrombolysis; DS: drainage and sclerosis.