title: Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) in a patient with parasagittal white matter shearing injury.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakahara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sumida
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuroki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurisu
mesh_terms: 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