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Isolated cortical vein thrombosis associated with prothrombin gene mutation.
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association - 1 Apr 2014
Giraldo Elias A, Arora Rohan, Koenigsberg Robert A
Abstract excerpt
Isolated cortical vein thrombosis (ICVT) accounts for less than 1% of strokes. We report a 47-year-old female patient who had a frontal hemorrhage with headache associated with contralateral hemiparesis and hemisensory deficit on presentation. This hemorrhagic stroke was localized in a nonarterial territory, and it was caused by ipsilateral and isolated thrombosis of the vein of Labbe found on catheter angiogram...
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