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From Spot Sign to Bleeding on the Spot: Classic and Original Signs of Expanding Primary Spontaneous Intracerebral
Ali Kanj1, Abir Ayoub2, Malak Aljoubaie3
1Radiology Department, Hammoud Hospital University Medical Center, Lebanon.
Abstract:
Expansion of a primary spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage (PSICH) has become lately of increasing interest, especially after the emergence of its early predictors. However, these signs lacked sensitivity and specificity. The flood phenomenon, defined as a drastic increase in the size of a PSICH during the same magnetic resonance study, was first described in this paper based on the data of a university medical center in Lebanon. Moreover, further review of this data resulted in 205 studies with presumed diagnosis of primary spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage within the last 10 years, of which 29 exams showed typical predictors of hematoma expansion on computed tomography. The intended benefit of this observation is to draw the radiologists' attention towards minimal variations in the volume of the hematoma between the two extreme sequences of the same MRI study, in order to detect inconspicuous flood phenomena-a direct sign of hematoma expansion.
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