Brain Embolism Secondary to Cardiac Myxoma in Fifteen Chinese Patients
Figure 3
Unusual imaging findings in patients with myxoma with embolism. (a) A patient’s death was due to the mass effect of a large infarction associated with compression. (b) Cross section of MRI revealed a new infarction of his left cerebellum (arrow). Part of the infarction compressed the fourth ventricle (dotted arrow). (c) CT showed a haematoma of the left cornu posterius ventriculi in the same patient (arrow). ((d)–(f)) MRI revealed a linear hyperintense band along the gyral margins (arrow) on T1-weighted imaging, which was defined as cortical laminar necrosis.
