RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Lasting cytotoxic edema as an indicator of irreversible brain damage: a case of neonatal stroke.
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 1636
OP 1638
VO 19
IS 9
A1 Rumpel, H
A1 Ferrini, B
A1 Martin, E
YR 1998
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/19/9/1636.abstract
AB We describe a case of neonatal stroke in the territory of the left middle cerebral artery. Although the ischemic lesion appeared rather homogeneously hyperintense on T2-weighted MR images, corresponding diffusion-weighted images clearly delineated two separate zones of different cellular swelling and, thus, different prognoses. Lasting cytotoxic edema heralded infarction. We believe that the different rates of disintegration of neurons and glial cells may have caused the change from intracellular to interstitial volume fraction during the evolution of edema.