This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Ronald S. Murray, MD; Suzanne S. Stensaas, Phd; Robert E. Anderson, MD; Fumisuke Matsuo, MD
Department of Neurology University of Utah Medical Center 500 N Medical Dr Salt Lake City, UT 84132

Arch Neurol. 1987;44(9):897.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.

—In the July 1986 issue of the ARCHIVES, Helgason et al¹ demonstrated the computed tomographic features of infarcts in the anterior choroidal artery territory, which typically included a part of the posterior limb of the internal capsule. The subject is of interest to us, because Lindenberg² proposed anterior choroidal artery compression as a mechanism of basal ganglia necrosis secondary to global hypoxic-ischemic injury. Computed tomographic-neuroanatomic correlations were made for five clinical cases. Cases 1 through 3 suffered cardiorespiratory arrest and case 4, carbon monoxide intoxication. Hydrogen sulfide inhalation was responsible for case 5.³ Computed tomographic lesions were defined by a neuroradiologist who was not provided with a clinical history and compared with normal cadaver brain slices cut at the same angle as the computed tomographic scan. The lucent basal ganglia lesions were symmetric, varied in size, and spared the internal capsule (Figure). Case 1 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?