Radiologic-Histopathologic Correlation of Cerebral Microbleeds Using Pre-Mortem and Post-Mortem MRI.

Sven HallerMarie-Louise MontandonFrançois LazeyrasMax SchefflerStephan MeckelFrancois R HerrmannPanteleimon GiannakopoulosEnikö Kövari

Published in: PloS one (2016)

Routine clinical brain MRI underestimates the prevalence of CMBs by approximately 50%, and 12% of radiologic pre-mortem MRI CMBs were false positives. Post-mortem MRI confirmed that this discordance is not explained by microbleeds occurring after the pre-mortem MRI.

Keyphrases

contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance imaging
diffusion weighted imaging
computed tomography
magnetic resonance
subarachnoid hemorrhage
cerebral ischemia
functional connectivity