Table 3:

Follow-up appearances of acute cortical/juxtacortical microinfarcts (n = 180)a

CMIsbT2WI (n = 52)FLAIR (n = 39)T2*WI (n = 4)SWI (n = 101)
Mean No. of lesions1.6 ± 2.81.2 ± 2.10.1 ± 0.43.2 ± 4.6c
Lesion locations(a)43466
(b)256021
(c)2330014
(a) + (b)299487
  • a Numbers in parentheses are total number of lesions.

  • b (a) indicates involvement of the gray matter alone; (b), the GM and juxtacortical white matter; and (c), the juxtacortical WM alone; and (a) + (b) = CMIs.

  • c Significantly different from T2WI, FLAIR, and T2*WI (P < .05).