Deep cerebral venous thrombosis case giving impression of a cerebral tumor

Abstract

Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare disease that can lead to morbidity and mortality. It can be seen in all age groups, most commonly between the ages of 30-40. Cerebral venous thrombosis patients may present with various clinical findings including headache, nausea, papilledema and less commonly seizures, encephalopathy, intracranial hemorrhage, multiple cranial nerve involvements. Variable presentation of patients creates difficulties in diagnosis. In this article, a patient who had a headache for 10 days and was first thought to have a thalamic tumor MRI but was found to have thrombosis in the internal cerebral veins as a result of detailed radiological examinations.