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

• Main Authors: Masahiro Uemura (Author), Yoshihiro Tsukamoto (Author), Yasuhisa Akaiwa (Author), Masaki Watanabe (Author), Ayako Tazawa (Author), Sou Kasahara (Author), Minoru Endou (Author), Ryosuke Ogura (Author), Kouichirou Okamoto (Author), Yukihiko Fujii (Author), Tsutomu Nakada (Author), Akiyoshi Kakita (Author), Masatoyo Nishizawa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...