Sunday, August 14, 2011

Need help understanding the results of my daughters MRI?

My daughter was thrown from the bed of a pickup truck in 2004. She recently got another MRI and I really don't know what I'm looking at. The following are the results:"There is focal atrophy and abnormal increased signal on flair sequences in the anterior left temporal lobe, ociated with prominence of the surrounding CSF spaces and absense of enhancement. There is no discrete m. On posttrauma CT of Dec 7, 2004 there is a large right temporoparietal scalp hematoma. If patient's symptoms have been present since her injury the appearance is most compatible with encephalomalacia and gliosis from a contrecoup type injury. Separate from this area brain volume in normal. Ventricle size is normal. There are no signs of acute or old hemorrhage. There are no signs of acute infarction and ther are no abnormal ares of enhancement. There is no significant parnasal sinus disease. Impression: Focal atropy and white matter changes in left temporal lobe compatible old contrecoup injury

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