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a splitting headache…

March 23, 2015 By Christopher Partyka 1 Comment

the case.

39 year old female presents to your Emergency Department with a four day history of a gradually worsening headache. Whilst she has a past history of migraines, this headache is much more severe and of different character to any migraine she has had previously. [Read more…]

Filed Under: #FOAM, Interesting, Neurology, Radiology Tagged With: anticoagulation, cerebral venous thrombosis, CT venogram, CVT, delta sign, dural sinus thrombosis, empty delta sign, headache, sagittal sinus thrombosis, secondary headache, stroke unit, thrombolysis

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