Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) in a patient with parasagittal white matter shearing injury.
We present a 32-year-old woman with a parasagittal white matter shearing injury of the left frontal lobe following a motor vehicle collision. There was monoplegia of the right lower extremity. Computed tomography failed to demonstrate the lesion which was visible on magnetic resonance images. In particular, fluid-attenuated inversion recovery images were useful to depict the shearing injury, since sulci were of low intensity on those images.
Kawamoto
H
H
Department of Neurosurgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
Arita
K
K
Nakahara
T
T
Sumida
M
M
Kuroki
K
K
Kurisu
K
K
D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed