Blindness, ophthalmoplegia and extensive radiculopathy: An unusual clinical syndrome in intracranial sino-venous thrombosis

Neurology India

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 96-98

  Moosa, A ^a   Kishore, A ^a   Gupta, A K ^a   Radhakrishnan, K ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Guillain Barre syndrome; Intracranial sino venous thrombosis; Radiculopathy; Raised intracranial pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PAPILLEDEMA; QUADRIPLEGIA; RADICULOPATHY; SEPTICEMIA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; NEUROSURGERY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; SYNDROME;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; BLINDNESS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; RADICULOPATHY; SYNDROME;

EID: 16544381866     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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