title: Intravascular thrombosis as a possible cause of transient cortical brain lesions: CT and MRI.
abstract: Cortical brain lesions were identified on MRI and CT in 14 patients with a variety of diseases. Each of these patients developed neurologic symptoms, the most prominent of which were seizures, depressed mental status, and blurred vision or cortical blindness. Both the imaging and the neurologic abnormalities resolved spontaneously within a period ranging from 5 to 30 days. Due to location and evolution of the lesions over time we hypothesize that they are secondary to small cortical venous thromboses.
authors.affiliation: Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Patronas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Argyropoulou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001037:Aphasia / Q000209:etiology; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology