Medical treatment of a central vein suppurative thrombosis with cerebral metastatic abcesses in a burned child

A 2-year-old girl admitted with third degree burns (35% TBSA) received 7 weeks poly-antibiotictherapy combined with heparin for a severe Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sepsis with multiple metastatic abcesses (lung, skin, brain), from a suppurative thrombophlebitis of the right jugularis interna, extended to the axillary and cava superior veins. Surgical treatment was contraindicated by the local extension. The child was discharged without major neurological sequelae 3 months after admission.