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Hemispheric cerebrovascular venous thrombosis due to closed head injury

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Case report

We present the case of an 8-month-old infant who was admitted to our Neurosurgery Department with venous infarction related to sagittal sinus thrombosis. The infarction was radiologically detected 5 days after the baby had undergone surgery for acute subdural hematoma due to a closed head injury.

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Cerebrovascular venous thrombosis is a rare clinical entity that has multiple causes and variable presenting symptoms. There is no consensus on overall strategy concerning surgical, radiosurgical, or medical therapy (anti-coagulation, thrombolytic, and anti-edema treatment), and exactly how, when, or in which cases these should be applied. The treatment planning should be based on clinical findings, and should be modified according to the clinical course. In this case, the clinical and radiological findings regressed with symptomatic treatment alone.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Baskent Hastanesi, 01250, Yuregir, Adana, Turkey

    Bulent Erdogan, Hakan Caner, M. Volkan Aydin & Orhan Sen

  2. Department of Radiology, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Baskent Hastanesi, 01250, Yuregir, Adana, Turkey

    Tulin Yildirim

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Baskent Hastanesi, 01250, Yuregir, Adana, Turkey

    Suat Kahveci

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Erdogan, B., Caner, H., Volkan Aydin, M. et al. Hemispheric cerebrovascular venous thrombosis due to closed head injury. Childs Nerv Syst 20, 239–242 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-003-0845-7

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