Cerebral venous thrombosis: A potential mimic of primary traumatic brain injury in infants

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Krasnokutsky, Michael V ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abusive head injury; Cerebral venous thrombosis; Hemorrhage; Subdural hematoma; Trauma

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE STUDY; CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC PHLEBOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIARRHEA; FEEDING DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE PHLEBOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOMITING;

BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052240838     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5977     Document Type: Review

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