Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: A diagnostic challenge

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 384-390

  Fink, John N ^a   McAuley, D L ^b  

^a Clinical Director of Peritoneal Dialysis ^*  (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral thrombosis; Diagnosis; Headache; Heparin; Intracranial; Sinus thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PAPILLEDEMA; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SINUS VENOSUS; TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 0035758259     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-5994.2001.00097.x     Document Type: Article

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