Because of its large spectrum of clinical manifestations, diagnosis of cerebral venous thrombosis may be very difficult. Since appropriate treatment influences prognosis, early recognition of this condition is extremely important. We report a subarachnoid hemorrhage as a rare initial manifestation of cerebral venous thrombosis. A 58-year-old woman was admitted with severe headache of sudden ons...

Postoperative cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a rare complication of the retrosigmoid approach. To address lack literature, we performed retrospective analysis. The thromboses were divided into those demonstrating radiological (rCVST) and clinical (cCVST) features, latter diagnosed during hospitalization. We identified former by contrast in sigmoid (SS) or transverse sinuses (TS), ev...

Okamura S, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220591 Description A 67-year-old man was referred to our department because of epistaxis. CT demonstrated that a mass had destroyed the posterior bony wall of the left paranasal sinus. Histopathological examination revealed squamous cell carcinoma of the maxillary sinus, and clinically staged T4aN0M0 was diagnosed. MRI showed no thrombus...

INTRODUCTION A 59-year-old Caucasian woman presented with an acute onset of alexia, noticed whilst driving. She described how while she could read car number plates, she had lost the ability to read and understand words on roadside advertisements and car window stickers. CASE PRESENTATION Neurological examination was unremarkable apart from the inability to read full words or sentences. Imagi...

A 17 year old male presented with seizures, headache, and fever and left chronic suppurative otitis media. A 35 year old male presented with headache, giddiness, vomiting, pain in eyes, diplopia and right chronic suppurative otitis media. Brain imaging in both revealed thrombosis of lateral and sigmoid sinus and also of internal jugular vein on the left and right side respectively. A diagnosis ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of petrosquamosal sinus (PSS) and other temporal bone (TB) anatomical variations in various patients using high-resolution computed tomography (CT). MATERIAL AND METHODS We reviewed clinical and consecutively obtained CT data for 276 TBs of 138 patients. The incidence of TB anatomical variations was compared among patients with rad...

Cerebral venous system can be divided into a superficial and a deep system. The superficial system comprises of sagittal sinuses and cortical veins and these drain superficial surfaces of both cerebral hemispheres. The deep system comprises of lateral sinus, straight sinus and sigmoid sinus along with draining deeper cortical veins. Both these systems mostly drain themselves into internal jugul...

The veins of the brain have no muscular tissue in their thin walls and possess no valves. They emerge from the brain and lie in the subarachnoid space. They pierce the arachnoid mater and the meningeal layer of the dura and drain into the cranial venous sinuses. The cerebral venous system can be divided into a superficial and a deep system. The superficial system comprises sagittal sinuses and ...