Combined Venous Sinus Angioplasty and Low-dose Thrombolytic Therapy for Treatment of Hemorrhagic Transverse Sinus Thrombosis in a Pediatric Patient
- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- Vol. 28 (3), 196-199
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.mph.0000210408.66803.f2
Abstract
We describe the successful treatment of a 5-year-old girl with rapidly evolving left hemispheric hemorrhagic infarcts resulting from left transverse and sigmoid sinus thrombosis using combined endovascular dural sinus angioplasty and local low-dose thrombolytic therapy.Keywords
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