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In 1949, the idea that WE lesions are a result of a disruption to the blood-brain barrier was introduced. [53] Large proteins passing into the brain can put neurological tissue at risk of toxic effects. The blood-brain barrier junctions are typically found to have WE lesions located at that region of the brain. [53]
Lesions can be extra-axial, (occurring within the skull but outside of the brain) or intra-axial (occurring within the brain tissue). [24] Damage from TBI can be focal or diffuse , confined to specific areas or distributed in a more general manner, respectively; [ 25 ] however, it is common for both types of injury to exist in a given case.
Brain cancers are the most common cancer in children under 19, are result in more death in this group than leukemia. [104] Younger people do less well. [105] The most common brain tumor types in children (0–14) are: pilocytic astrocytoma, malignant glioma, medulloblastoma, neuronal and mixed neuronal-glial tumors, and ependymoma. [106]
Brain ischemia is a condition in which there is insufficient bloodflow to the brain to meet metabolic demand. [1] This leads to poor oxygen supply or cerebral hypoxia and thus leads to the death of brain tissue or cerebral infarction/ischemic stroke. [2] It is a sub-type of stroke along with subarachnoid hemorrhage and intracerebral hemorrhage. [3]
Magnetic resonance imaging uses strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio waves to generate images of the structure of the brain. In perfusion MRI a contrast agent , such as gadolinium compounds, may be used to study the structure of the blood vessels around the tumor that provide nutrients and remove waste. [ 13 ]
Diffuse axonal injury after a motorcycle accident. MRI after 3 days: on T1-weighted images the injury is barely visible. On the FLAIR, DWI and T2*-weighted images a small bleed is identifiable. DAI is difficult to detect since it does not show up well on CT scans or with other macroscopic imaging techniques, though it shows up microscopically. [9]
Brain abscess (or cerebral abscess) is an abscess within the brain tissue caused by inflammation and collection of infected material coming from local (ear infection, dental abscess, infection of paranasal sinuses, infection of the mastoid air cells of the temporal bone, epidural abscess) or remote (lung, heart, kidney etc.) infectious sources.
PML is diagnosed in a patient with a progressive course of the disease, finding JC virus DNA in spinal fluid together with consistent white-matter lesions on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); alternatively, a brain biopsy is diagnostic [1] when the typical histopathology of demyelination, bizarre astrocytes, and enlarged oligodendroglial ...