title: Acute and chronic brain infarcts on MR imaging in a 20-year-old woman with acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy.
abstract: A 20-year-old woman recently diagnosed with acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy developed headaches, weakness, and paresthesias. MR imaging of the brain revealed an acute infarct (demonstrated by diffusion-weighted images) in the head of the right caudate nucleus, a chronic infarct with encephalomalacia in the body of the corpus callosum, and multiple foci of abnormal signal intensity in the white matter of the centrum semiovale.
authors.affiliation: University of Miami School of Medicine, Aventura, FL 33180, USA.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Bugnone
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hartker
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Pineless
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Velez
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D020520:Brain Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000473:pathology; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010857:Pigment Epithelium of Eye / Q000473:pathology; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000150:complications*