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Case Reports
. 2022 Mar 7;15(3):e246655.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-246655.

Meningeal vein and subarachnoid FLAIR hyperintensities in polycythaemia vera

Ioana Maria Ion  1 , Eric Thouvenot  2   3 , Marwane Cheriet  1 , Dimitri Renard  1
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Case Reports

Meningeal vein and subarachnoid FLAIR hyperintensities in polycythaemia vera

Ioana Maria Ion et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cancer - see oncology; neurology (drugs and medicines); radiology (diagnostics).

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
MRI showing (arrows) acute infarction on diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) (A), bilateral subarachnoid (B, C) and meningeal vein (D, E) hyperintensities on FLAIR, and bilateral occipital perfusion deficit (time-to-peak map, (F)).
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