Lacunes: Black holes in our understanding of cerebral amyloid angiopathy

The origin of lacunes, small cavities in the brain, remained a matter of great controversy until Fisher1 used serial neuropathologic sections to identify thrombotic occlusion of small cerebral arteries in association with most, but not all, lacunes. Lacunes appear on MRI as black holes on sequences that are T1-weighted or T2-weighted with CSF suppression.

Source: Neurology - June 5, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Smith, E. E., Lee, J.-M. Tags: Infarction, Intracerebral hemorrhage EDITORIALS Source Type: research