Table 2:

Number of patients presenting with areas of significant (≥3 on the visual scale) increased signal/decreased ADC in the different brain structuresa

N = 31FLAIRDWI
Frontal1725
Parietal1518
Temporal1418
Occipital1113
Insula1115
Cortex, all1926
Lenticular1823
Caudate1623
Thalamus611
Basal ganglia, all2025
Brain stem12
Global2629

  • a The most frequently involved cerebral lobes are the frontal, the temporal, and the parietal. In the deep brain structures, the lenticular and the caudate nuclei are affected in a similar number of patients