Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Presenting as Cortical Blindness
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Cortical blindness as a rare presentation of cerebral venous thrombosis
Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians. Manifesting in a remarkably wide spectrum of symptoms and signs, CVT often presents in a misleading fashion-if unrecognized or misdiagnosed, it carries potentially fatal consequences. Visual loss is quite rare as the initial presentation of CVT and is typically a finding more frequent in chronic case...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal Of Neurology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1301-062X
DOI: 10.4274/tnd.89106