Citation

Hald JK, Brunberg JA, Dublin AB, Wootton-Gorges SL. Acta Radiol. (1987) 2003; 44(3): 343-346.

Affiliation

Department of Radiology, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento 95817, USA. john.hald@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12752010

Abstract

Diffusion-weighted (DW) MR imaging usually identifies acute cerebral infarction injury in symptomatic patients. We report a patient with severe hypoxic brain injury following suicide attempt by hanging, but with normal DW MR imaging 5-6 h after the event. Follow-up DW MR imaging 3 days after the event, and subsequent autopsy, revealed extensive cerebral anoxic injury.

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