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Atypical MRI Findings of Venous Sinus Thrombosis in Pregnancy: Clinical Significance Relating to Episodic Vascular Headache
Author(s) -
Turkewitz L. Jay,
Jacobs Alan K.,
Bidwell J. Keith
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1991.hed3104240.x
Subject(s) - medicine , clinical significance , thrombosis , pregnancy , cerebral venous sinus thrombosis , venous thrombosis , radiology , vascular disease , sinus (botany) , vascular malformation , vascular headache , surgery , migraine , genetics , botany , biology , genus
SYNOPSIS Two cases of headache during pregnancy were associated with MRI findings suggestive of venous sinus thrombosis. The findings, however, were atypical, and of uncertain clinical significance. Venous sinus thrombosis typically does not occur during the first and second trimesters (less than 10 percent of reported cases). Thus, these two cases are doubly unusual. The correct significance of these equivocal MRI findings of possible venous sinus thrombosis must be understood so that unnecessary and potentially harmful therapies are not employed, and so that appropriate management of what may otherwise be a typical vascular headache syndrome may be undertaken.