General Description of Cerebral Infarction

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Fig. 2.1 Angiographic anatomy of the right internal carotid artery Fig. 2.2 Angiographic anatomy of the vertebrobasilar system Inside the skull, each internal carotid artery bifurcates to form the anterior cerebral artery…

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Cerebral Haemorrhage

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Fig. 9.1 Very acute phase of intraparenchymal haemorrhage of the posterior limb of the left internal capsule (oxyhaemoglobin) occurring during a hypertensive crisis. The haematoma is hyperdense (a) on CT scan…

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Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Fig. 1.1 MRI FLAIR and T2* sequences 24 h after onset of left middle cerebral artery infarction. Cerebral oedema is hyperintense on the FLAIR sequence (a star). Deep focal haemorrhagic transformation is…

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Radiological Differential Diagnosis of Cerebral Infarction

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Fig. 12.1 Four grades of leukoaraiosis according to Brant-Zawadzki’s classification in 4 different patients. Grade 1 a occasional frontal periventricular hyperintensities. Grade 2 b hyperintensities visible in the occipital horns. Grade…

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Rare Cerebral Angiopathies

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Fig. 7.1 Cerebral vasculitis in a 50-year-old female with a history of TIA. MRI FLAIR sequence (a arrows): focal white matter hyperintensities. Left thalamic hypointensity on T2* sequence (b hollow arrow)…

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Territory Infarction

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Fig. 3.1 Right superficial middle cerebral artery infarction: hyperintense signal on diffusion-weighted imaging (a and b) with embolic material from irregular stenosis of the right carotid artery (c, cerebral MR angiography:…

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Thrombolysis

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Fig. 14.1 22-year-old female patient with left middle cerebral artery infarction and right hemiplegia and aphasia. The NIHSS score was 20. MRI performed 3 h after onset of symptoms shows abnormalities on…

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Haematological Disorders

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Fig. 8.1 Sickle-cell anaemia in a 26-year-old male patient resulting in moyamoya syndrome. The TOF sequence shows bilateral terminal internal carotid artery occlusion (a hollow arrow, occluded right internal carotid artery)…

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Incidental Findings

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Fig. 13.1 Incidental finding on MRI (a FLAIR sequence) of numerous focal white matter hyperintensities in a 54-year-old female patient with no particular history investigated for nonspecific chronic headache. The patient…

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Spinal Cord Infarction

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Fig. 11.1 Arterial vascular anatomy of the spinal cord Pathophysiology Two types of spinal cord infarction are distinguished: Global ischaemia secondary to low cardiac output (cardiac arrest, severe hypotension in a…

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