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Traumatic dural venous sinus thrombosis; a challenge in management of head injury patients
Fardad T Afshari1, Kamal Makram Yakoub1, Athanasios Zisakis1
1Department of Neurosurgery, Birmingham University Hospital, Birmingham B15 2GW, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Venous sinus thrombosis secondary to traumatic brain injury and head trauma is increasingly detected following contrast enhanced cranial imaging in acute trauma. The presence of sinus thrombosis poses further challenges in the management of traumatic brain injury patients with cerebral contusions, intraparenchymal haemorrhages or subdural/extradural haemorrhages. The decision to anti-coagulate such trauma induced venous sinus thrombosis is controversial and requires further attention and research to delineate risks versus benefits of treatment. In this article we report 4 cases of venous sinus thrombosis following head trauma and review the literature on management of such patients.
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