title: Susceptibility-weighted imaging in differentiating bilateral medial thalamic venous and arterial infarcts.
abstract: Bilateral medial thalamic infarcts may be due to thrombosis of internal cerebral veins or occlusion of artery of Percheron. Conventional MR imaging is often not helpful in differentiating the two. We discuss two cases in whom susceptibility-weighted imaging, including phase images contributed in demonstrating the thrombosed or patent internal cerebral veins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Imaging Sciences & Interventional Radiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala-695 011, India.
authors.forename: Somenath
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: Bejoy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Chandrasekhar
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kesavadas
authors.forename: Tirur Raman
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Kapilamoorthy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D013788:Thalamus / Q000473:pathology*; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000150:complications*