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Assessing Cortical Cerebral Microinfarcts on High Resolution MR Images
Published on: November 20, 2015
Hippocampal microbleed on a post-mortem t(2)∗-weighted gradient-echo 7.0-tesla magnetic resonance imaging?
J De Reuck1, D Caparros-Lefebvre, V Deramecourt
1Université Lille Nord de France, Wattrelos, France.
Case Reports in Neurology
|November 29, 2011
Abstract:
The present post-mortem study of a brain from an Alzheimer patient showed on a T(2)∗-weighted gradient-echo 7.0-T MRI of a coronal brain section a hyposignal in the hippocampus, suggesting a microbleed. On the corresponding histological examination, only iron deposits around the granular cellular layer and in blood vessel walls of the hippocampus were observed without evidence of a bleeding. This case report illustrates that the detection of microbleeds on MRI has to be interpreted with caution.

