RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Subarachnoid Hemosiderosis and Superficial Cortical Hemosiderosis in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 184
OP 186
DO 10.3174/ajnr.A0783
VO 29
IS 1
A1 Linn, J.
A1 Herms, J.
A1 Dichgans, M.
A1 Brückmann, H.
A1 Fesl, G.
A1 Freilinger, T.
A1 Wiesmann, M.
YR 2008
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/29/1/184.abstract
AB SUMMARY: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is an important cause of intracerebral hemorrhage. Its definite diagnosis still requires histopathologic demonstration of vascular amyloid. Thus, further improvement of noninvasive imaging methods would be desirable. Here we present 3 patients with histologically proved CAA, in which superficial cortical hemosiderosis and subarachnoid hemosiderosis were present in T2*-weighted MR images. Thus, we propose that these 2 findings might be valuable as noninvasive diagnostic markers for CAA.