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Section Editors: Matylda Machnowska1 and Anvita Pauranik2
1University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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October 13, 2008
Sinus Pericranii
- Refers to communication between intracranial venous sinuses and epicranial veins
- Symptoms are infrequent and include cosmetic defects, headache, vertigo, local fullness and pain (may be associated with Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus syndrome), and bone defects.
- May increase in size or disappear due to thrombosis
- In case of surgery or intravenous treatment, catheter angiography or direct puncture angiogram may be needed to delineate neck.
- Rarely, they may attain "giant" proportions.
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