title: [Clinical diagnosis and analysis of cerebral cortical venous thrombosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical and radiological characteristics of cortical vein thrombosis for early diagnosis and treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective analysis was carried out with the clinical cases of cortical vein thrombosis in 2010. The symptoms, sign, neuroimaging were analyzed and related literatures were reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four patients were collected, average age was forty years old. The main symptoms were headache and focal neurological signs in varying degrees, infarction or hemorrhage in one or two sides of parietal lobe could be found in CT or MRI. Hemorrhage was found in two patients, infarction was found in one patient, hemorrhage and infarction were both found in another patient.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Headache and focal neurological signs are the common sings and symptoms of patients with cortical vein thrombosis. CT and MRI are effective methods for the diagnosis of cortical vein thrombosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital, Beijing 100053, China.
authors.forename: Li-Dong
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Yue-Shan
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Piao
authors.forename: Xiang-Bo
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: De-Hong
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000098:blood supply; D002550:Cerebral Veins; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020767:Intracranial Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis*