Postanoxic parkinsonism: clinical, radiologic, and pathologic correlation.
The authors report a 72-year-old patient who presented with parkinsonism after hypoxic-ischemic insult. T1-weighted MRI revealed high signal intensity lesions in the basal ganglia. Pathologic study of the brain disclosed multiple foci of old infarcts with gliosis and lipid-laden and hemosiderin-laden macrophages, indicating a previous minor hemorrhage after infarction. This observation provided pathologic correlation with the patient's clinical symptoms and MRI.
Li
J Y
JY
Section of Neurology, Veterans General Hospital-Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C. jyli@isca.vghks.gov.tw
Lai
P H
PH
Chen
C Y
CY
Wang
J S
JS
Lo
Y K
YK
D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D020520:Brain Infarction / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D020925:Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010302:Parkinson Disease, Secondary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed