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Total Hemispheric Infarction

Author(s) -

Zen Kobayashi,

Minoru Kotera

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

european neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1421-9913

pISSN - 0014-3022

DOI - 10.1159/000242445

Subject(s) - internal carotid artery , hyperintensity , stroke (engine) , medicine , cardiology , infarction , cerebral infarction , right hemisphere , ischemic stroke , middle cerebral artery , posterior cerebral artery , occlusion , brain infarction , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology , ischemia , audiology , myocardial infarction , mechanical engineering , engineering

right middle cerebral artery suggesting ischemic stroke. MRA on the next day poorly demonstrated the right internal carotid ar tery (ICA) and posterior cerebral artery (PCA) ( fig. 1 a). MRI demonstrated extensive hyperintensities involving the total right hemisphere ( fig. 1 b–e). We considered that the ICA occlusion resulted in total hemispheric infarction because the territories of the right PCA had been supplied by the right ICA in this patient [1] .

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