Middle Cerebral Artery Atherosclerotic Plaques in Recent Small Subcortical Infarction: A Three-Dimensional High-resolution MR Study

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A 59-year-old man with left-side weakness. (a) MRA shows no stenosis on right MCA; (b) the diffusion-weighted image shows a hypertensive lesion in the right lenticular nucleus which extends to the coronal radiate; precontrast T1-weighted SPACE images did not show eccentric wall thickening clearly on both the long axis (c) and short axis ((e), arrow) of the MCA; postcontrast T1-weighted SPACE images show wall thickening ipsilateral to the infarct on both the long axis (d) and short axis ((f), arrow) of the MCA.

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