Intracranial hypertension caused by a depressed skull fracture resulting in superior sagittal sinus thrombosis in a pediatric patient: Treatment with ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion - Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-28

  Forbes, Jonathan A ^a   Reig, Adam S ^a   Tomycz, Luke D ^a   Tulipan, Noel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Depressed skull fracture; Sagittal sinus thrombosis; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALABSORPTION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; SAGITTAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; SKULL FRACTURE; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; ENOXAPARIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; OCCIPITAL BONE; OFF-ROAD MOTOR VEHICLES; PARIETAL BONE; SAGITTAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; SKULL FRACTURE, DEPRESSED; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 77954353971     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.3.PEDS09441     Document Type: Article

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