No/sex/age | Cortical symptoms (duration) | Lesion on MRI | Angiography | SPECT |
Patients with cortical symptoms after large subcortical infarctions (group A): | ||||
1/M/65 | Global aphasia→motor aphasia (persistent1-150) | Lt CR, SC | Lt ICA occlusion | ↓ P and R in Lt MCA territory |
2/M/58 | Mild global aphasia (5 days) | Lt SC | Lt MCA severe stenosis | ↓ P and R in Lt MCA territory |
3/M/69 | Visual neglect, sensory extinction (4 days) | Rt CR, SC | Rt MCA inferior occlusion | — |
4/M/71 | Visual and sensory neglect (10 days) | Rt CR | Rt MCA occlusion | ↓ P and R in Rt MCA territory |
5/F/61 | Global aphasia→motor aphasia (persistent1-150) | Lt CR | Lt MCA severe stenosis | — |
6/F/47 | Mild asomatognosia (3 days) | Rt SC | Rt MCA occlusion | — |
7/M/63 | Anomic aphasia1-151 (7 days) | Rt SC | WNL | ↓ P in Rt MCA territory |
8/M/61 | Global aphasia (persistent1-150) | Lt SC, CR | Lt ICA occlusion | — |
9/F/43 | Asomatognosia (3 days) | Rt SC | Rt MCA occlusion | — |
Patients without cortical symptoms after large subcortical infarctions (group B): | ||||
10/M/54 | — | Rt SC | WNL | ↓ P in Rt inferior F lobe |
11/F/72 | — | Rt SC | WNL | — |
12/F/75 | — | Rt SC | Rt MCA severe stenosis | — |
13/F/53 | — | Lt SC | WNL | ↓ P in Lt F-P lobes |
14/F/49 | — | Lt SC | WNL | — |
15/M/82 | — | Lt SC | WNL | — |
SPECT=single photon emission computed tomography; P=perfusion; R=reserve; ↓=decreased; SC=striatocapsular; CR=corona radiata; WNL=within normal limits; ICA=internal carotid artery; MCA=middle cerebral artery; F=frontal; F-P=frontoparietal.
↵1-150 These patients had persistent cortical dysfunctions at their latest follow up.
↵1-151 Left handed person.