Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis due to oral contraceptive use: Postmortem 3 T-MRI and autopsy findings

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis due to oral contraceptive use: Postmortem 3 T-MRI and autopsy findings

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is an uncommon form of stroke, and mortality of the acute phase is high. We report the clinical, postmortem 3 T-MRI, and autopsy features of a patient, 20-year-old Japanese woman, with CVST who died shortly after starting to use low-dose estrogen combined horm...

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Main Authors: Masahiro Uemura, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Yasuhisa Akaiwa, Masaki Watanabe, Ayako Tazawa, Sou Kasahara, Minoru Endou, Ryosuke Ogura, Kouichirou Okamoto, Yukihiko Fujii, Tsutomu Nakada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Masatoyo Nishizawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-12-01
Series:Human Pathology: Case Reports
Subjects:
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
Contraceptive
Postmortem MRI
Autopsy
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214330015300638

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