Related Experiment Videos
Giant cervical epidural veins after craniectomy for head trauma
R D Caruso1, M V Smith, J K Chang
1Department of Radiology, S.U.N.Y. Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology
|June 5, 1998
Abstract:
Markedly dilated cervical epidural veins and right upper extremity weakness developed in a 43-year-old man 4 months after contralateral craniectomy for head trauma. After cranioplasty, his symptoms improved markedly and the size of the veins returned to normal. These findings suggest that enlarged cervical epidural veins may occur without an underlying vascular lesion and that upper extremity weakness may occasionally be attributable to spinal cord venous stasis.