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Cerebral Venous Thrombosis

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Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) was first recognized in the early nineteenth century when Ribes, in 1825, described the clinical and autopsy spectrum of superior sagittal sinus thrombosis in a 45-year-old man suffering from a disseminated malignancy [1]. CVT is an important cause of stroke, with diverse clinical features, predisposing factors, brain imaging findings and outcomes. Many cases may remain clinically undetected in view of the variable clinical signs and a generally good prognosis.

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Bhatia, R., Kaul, B., Dash, D. (2019). Cerebral Venous Thrombosis. In: Singh, M., Bhatia, R. (eds) Emergencies in Neurology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5866-1_13

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