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Transverse Sinus Thrombosis Secondary to Internal Jugular Vein Abnormalities

Cerebral sinus venous thrombosis (CSVT) is a rare disorder that presents with highly variable neurological manifestations ranging from headache, confusion, seizures, coma to stroke-like symptoms. It predominantly affects young adults and children, with female predilection. We are presenting a case o...

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Autores principales: Abuserewa, Sherif T, Duff, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34285853
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15747
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description Cerebral sinus venous thrombosis (CSVT) is a rare disorder that presents with highly variable neurological manifestations ranging from headache, confusion, seizures, coma to stroke-like symptoms. It predominantly affects young adults and children, with female predilection. We are presenting a case of 59-year-old female with left-sided transverse and sigmoid sinus thrombosis most likely secondary to dehydration on top of chronically diminutive left transverse sinus and internal jugular vein.
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spelling pubmed-82867972021-07-19 Transverse Sinus Thrombosis Secondary to Internal Jugular Vein Abnormalities Abuserewa, Sherif T Duff, Richard Cureus Internal Medicine Cerebral sinus venous thrombosis (CSVT) is a rare disorder that presents with highly variable neurological manifestations ranging from headache, confusion, seizures, coma to stroke-like symptoms. It predominantly affects young adults and children, with female predilection. We are presenting a case of 59-year-old female with left-sided transverse and sigmoid sinus thrombosis most likely secondary to dehydration on top of chronically diminutive left transverse sinus and internal jugular vein. Cureus 2021-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8286797/ /pubmed/34285853 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15747 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abuserewa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Transverse Sinus Thrombosis Secondary to Internal Jugular Vein Abnormalities
title_full Transverse Sinus Thrombosis Secondary to Internal Jugular Vein Abnormalities
title_fullStr Transverse Sinus Thrombosis Secondary to Internal Jugular Vein Abnormalities
title_full_unstemmed Transverse Sinus Thrombosis Secondary to Internal Jugular Vein Abnormalities
title_short Transverse Sinus Thrombosis Secondary to Internal Jugular Vein Abnormalities
title_sort transverse sinus thrombosis secondary to internal jugular vein abnormalities
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286797/
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