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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Childs Nerv Syst. 2010 Jul 13;26(10):1263–1273. doi: 10.1007/s00381-010-1208-9

Fig 2. Vasculopathy in Sickle Cell Disease.

Fig 2

14-year-old child with acute stroke in bilateral middle cerebral artery (MCA) watershed regions. Stroke is bright on DWI (top panel) and dark on ADC (center panel). MRA (bottom panel) shows severe cerebral vasculopathy with occlusion of the right MCA (arrow) and absence of the anterior cerebral arteries bilaterally. The majority of the intracranial blood flow is provided by the posterior cerebral arteries and the posterior division of the left MCA