Acute hemiparesis in Sturge-Weber syndrome

Pract Neurol. 2009 Jun;9(3):169-71. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.176628.

Abstract

A young woman, known to have Sturge-Weber syndrome, was admitted with headache and left hemiparesis. Neuroimaging showed chronic occlusion of the venous sinuses without evidence of acute thrombus formation, or a recent vascular event.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Electroencephalography
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Paresis / diagnosis*
  • Paresis / diagnostic imaging
  • Paresis / pathology
  • Sturge-Weber Syndrome / complications*
  • Sturge-Weber Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed