Isolated left vein of Labbe thrombosis

A 23-year-old man developed sudden onset of fever and headache. He was alert but had slight difficulty with naming and had agraphia and acalculia. The provisional diagnosis was viral encephalitis. MRI showed a left posterior temporal hemorrhagic infarct with thrombosis of left vein of Labbe (figure 1). This was confirmed by MR venography (figure 1, D, E) and digital subtraction angiography (figure …