Rare Presentation of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Child

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a critical condition with significant morbidity and mortality. It primarily affects the young and healthy. CVST presents a diagnostic challenge due to its varied presentation patterns. We report the case of a 11-year-old boy diagnosed with CVST after presen...

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Autores principales: Taksande, Amar, Meshram, Rewat, Yadav, Purnima, Lohakare, Amol
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5890567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29675086
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_109_17
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author Taksande, Amar
Meshram, Rewat
Yadav, Purnima
Lohakare, Amol
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description Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a critical condition with significant morbidity and mortality. It primarily affects the young and healthy. CVST presents a diagnostic challenge due to its varied presentation patterns. We report the case of a 11-year-old boy diagnosed with CVST after presenting with a long history of continuous headache. He improved following anticoagulation therapy. Despite thorough investigation, no discernible underlying cause could be identified.
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spelling pubmed-58905672018-04-19 Rare Presentation of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Child Taksande, Amar Meshram, Rewat Yadav, Purnima Lohakare, Amol J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a critical condition with significant morbidity and mortality. It primarily affects the young and healthy. CVST presents a diagnostic challenge due to its varied presentation patterns. We report the case of a 11-year-old boy diagnosed with CVST after presenting with a long history of continuous headache. He improved following anticoagulation therapy. Despite thorough investigation, no discernible underlying cause could be identified. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5890567/ /pubmed/29675086 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_109_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Rare Presentation of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Child
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title_short Rare Presentation of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5890567/
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