title: CT and MRI in acute hemorrhagic stroke.
abstract: We report the case of a woman presenting with an acute onset of hemiplegia. MRI was performed and showed a hyperintense mass on diffusion-weighted imaging, with areas of high signal intensity on T2* imaging and T2/PD imaging. T1-weighted imaging showed a more inhomogeneous lesion with a central isointense part corresponding to the acute clot, as well as a peripheral crescent of hypointense plasma; since another mass lesion could not be acutely excluded, computed tomography was performed immediately afterwards, showing a hyperdense hematoma. The patient was taken to the neurosurgical operating theater, where she underwent decompressive craniotomy and evacuation of the hematoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroradiology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El-Koussy
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guzman
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bassetti
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stepper
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barth
authors.forename: K O
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: Lövblad
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schroth
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D020521:Stroke / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed