Management and outcome of cerebral venous thrombosis after head trauma: A case series.

This report describes a case series of five patients admitted for head injury complicated by CVT. The main associated radiological signs were skull fractures crossing the venous sinus and adjacent traumatic hematoma. In four patients, anticoagulation was introduced within 48-72h of CVT diagnosis, with no subsequent hemorrhagic complications. The present report and data from the literature raise the question of systematic additional venoscans when confronted by associated radiological features of post-traumatic CVT. The safety of anticoagulation in selected patients is also discussed. PMID: 28495232 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revue Neurologique - Category: Neurology Tags: Rev Neurol (Paris) Source Type: research