QJM Advance Access originally published online on January 18, 2008
QJM 2008 101(3):247-249; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcm138
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Intracerebral haemorrhage due to cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
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Sir,
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a common cause of stroke in young in India especially during post-partum period.1 It has diverse clinical presentations including headache, seizures and focal neurological deficit in various combinations. In the causes of intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), CVST is not mentioned in standard text. A Medline search using terms ICH and CVST revealed only four articles comprising of eight patients.2–5 In last 3 years we have managed 33 patients with CVST and three of them had ICH and were initially misdiagnosed as aneurysmal or
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Department of Neurology
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of
Medical Sciences
Lucknow
India
email: jayanteek@yahoomail.com; jkalita@sgpgi.ac.in
Department of Radiology
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of
Medical Sciences
Lucknow
India