title: Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Involving the Straight Sinus May Result in Infarction and/or Hemorrhage.
abstract: We retrospectively investigated the clinical profiles and neuroimaging data of patients with documented cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) to analyze the relationship between the sites of CVST and clinical manifestations.
  
  
  
  A total of 68 patients, who were examined and treated at our hospital, were identified after review and their data were retrospectively analyzed.
  
  
  
  Initial non-contrast CT scan showed a definite spontaneous hyperdensity of one or several sinuses in 47 patients (69.1%) and was normal in the remaining patients (30.9%). Furthermore, the x03C7;2 test revealed a significant difference (p = 0.001) in the infarction or hemorrhage rate between the patients with straight sinus thrombosis (SST; 19 of 28, 67.8%) and other subjects (9 of 39, 23.1%). Moreover, patients with SST had a 6.33-fold (95% CI 2.18-18.4) increased risk of infarction or hemorrhage.
  
  
  
  Our data suggested that infarction and/or hemorrhage was more common in CVST patients with SST.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Geng
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: MingHua
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: YueQi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: JunGong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: HaiTao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D003392:Cranial Sinuses / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D059906:Neuroimaging; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012851:Sinus Thrombosis, Intracranial / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D055815:Young Adult