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Published on: April 13, 2013
A clear presentation of intracranial hypostasis on PMCT
Norihiro Shinkawa1, Maki Imada2, Minako Azuma2
1Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan; Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
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Intracranial hypostasis is a common postmortem change evident on postmortem CT (PMCT), but can be readily misinterpreted as subdural hematoma by inexperienced physicians. Although PMCT is necessarily lacking contrast enhancement, we reconstructed hypostatic sinuses into three-dimensional images resembling the results of in vivo venography. This simple methodology facilitates easy recognition of intracranial hypostasis.
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