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An incidental persistent falcine sinus with dominant straight sinus and hypoplastic distal superior sagittal sinus

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An incidental persistent falcine sinus was detected in an otherwise normal brain on MRI in a 12-year-old girl who underwent imaging after clinical suspicion of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The falcine sinus was associated with a hypoplastic posterior third of the superior sagittal sinus and a dominant straight sinus. Generally, atresia or hypoplasia of the straight sinus is associated with a persistent falcine sinus in postnatal life; otherwise, the falcine sinus disappears before birth. We discuss the embryological basis for such an association in this case.

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  1. Metroscans, Trivandrum, India

    Krishnan Sarojam Manoj

  2. Department of Imaging Sciences and Interventional Radiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India

    Thamburaj Krishnamoorthy, Bejoy Thomas & Tirur Raman Kapilamoorthy

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Manoj, K.S., Krishnamoorthy, T., Thomas, B. et al. An incidental persistent falcine sinus with dominant straight sinus and hypoplastic distal superior sagittal sinus. Pediatr Radiol 36, 65–67 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-005-0009-x

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