Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2004

Seiten: 812-815

Zeitschrift: Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain

Bandnummer: 44

Heftnummer: 8

ISSN: 0017-8748

eISSN: 1526-4610

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.04150.x

Verlag: Wiley

Abstract: 
Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) associated with minor or trivial head trauma has only been described in a few cases so far. We report two patients who developed CVT after a sudden intracranial pressure increase and head acceleration. A 49-year-old woman jumped from a small rock, 1 m in height, and developed instantaneous occipital headaches. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed confluens sinuum thrombosis. Risk factors consisted of smoking and oral contraceptives. Our second patient, an 18-year-old woman, experienced instantaneous headaches after a sneezing attack. Superior sagittal and right-sided transverse sinus thrombosis were confirmed by venous computed tomography angiography. She took oral contraceptives as an additional risk factor. In about 20% of CVT cases the cause remains unclear. As minor head trauma may not have been recognized during history taking, this may represent a so far under-recognized precipitating factor for CVT.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Röttger, C., Trittmacher, S., Gerriets, T., Kaps, M. and Stolz, E. (2004) Sinus thrombosis after a jump from a small rock and a sneezing attack:: Minor endothelial trauma as a precipitating factor for cerebral venous thrombosis?, Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 44(8), pp. 812-815. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.04150.x

APA-Zitierstil: Röttger, C., Trittmacher, S., Gerriets, T., Kaps, M., & Stolz, E. (2004). Sinus thrombosis after a jump from a small rock and a sneezing attack:: Minor endothelial trauma as a precipitating factor for cerebral venous thrombosis?. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. 44(8), 812-815. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.04150.x