Open AccessDifusion weighted imaging characteristics differentiate acute symptomatic cerebral microbleeds from silent microbleeds: An acute pontine microhemorrhage case presentation
Author(s) -
Arda Yılmaz,
Mehmet Akif Topçuoğlu,
Ethem Murat Arsava
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
türk beyin damar hastalıkları dergisi/türk beyin damar hastalıkları dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2146-9113
pISSN - 1301-1375
DOI - 10.5505/tbdhd.2015.03016
Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , susceptibility weighted imaging , radiology , neuroimaging , magnetic resonance imaging , psychiatry
Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) on susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) have generally been considered to be silent. Recent reports indicated that, albeit it is a rarity, CMBs can cause acute focal neurological symptoms. Herein we present a patient who was admitted with cheiro-oral syndrome due to an acute izolated pontine microbleed. Combination of diffusion weighted imaging and SWI can be useful in the differentiation of acute symptomatic cerebral microbleeds from chronic ones