title: Incomplete brain infarction.
abstract: We present a 70-year-old man who suffered two attacks of possible incomplete infarction. At the first attack, the responsible lesion was unclear on MRI including DWI, but demonstrated a high uptake of (99m)Tc-ECD SPECT during the acute phase; thereafter the lesion became atrophic with a low uptake on SPECT during the chronic phase. At the second attack, the responsible lesion revealed weakly hyperintense changes on DWI without marked changes on conventional modalities, but had a high uptake on SPECT and capillary blush on angiography during the acute phase. It is suggested that incomplete infarction can solely result in a massive and clinically critical lesion without an accompanying complete infarction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Stroke Center, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital. y.inatomix@silk.ocn.ne.jp
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inatomi
authors.forename: Toshiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yonehara
authors.forename: Teruyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirano
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uchino
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D020520:Brain Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D003545:Cysteine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012008:Recurrence; D013997:Time Factors; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; C059659:technetium Tc 99m bicisate; D003545:Cysteine