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- Title
Spuriously Large Subcortex Infarct due to Confluent Smaller Lesions: A Diffusion-Weighted MRI/CT Study.
- Authors
Wada, Kuniyasu; Kimura, Kazumi; Iguchi, Yasuyuki; Inoue, Takeshi; Matsumoto, Noriko; Shibasaki, Kensaku; Ueno, Yuji; Sunada, Yoshihide
- Abstract
The article focuses on a medical report which discusses two small lacunes seen on diffusion weighted MRI that merged to form a giant lacunar infarct seen on CT scan. A lacunar infarction is represented as a small, deep infarction that involves a perforating artery that branches from a large cerebral artery. Most autopsy studies have documented that lacunar infarctions are small in size. Therefore, the term lacunar infarction is commonly used as a clinical category for small lesions in the territory of the deep and single perforating arteries. But, occasionally, deep infarcts larger than 15 mm in diameter without arterial disease are found.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC resonance imaging; TOMOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ischemia; BRAIN blood-vessels; CEREBRAL arteries; BLOOD coagulation; THROMBOSIS
- Publication
European Neurology, 2005, Vol 54, Issue 3, p161
- ISSN
0014-3022
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000090106