Location and volume of middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarcts
| Patients | Ischaemic lesion volume (mm3) | Infarct location on FLAIR images | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Side | Cortical regions | Deep regions | ||||||
| Frontal lobe | Parietal lobe | Temporal lobe | Internal capsule | Lentiform nucleus | Caudate nucleus | |||
| Location evaluated by visual inspection: region involved indicated by +; *posterior and anterior limbs of internal capsule; †posterior limb of internal capsule. L, left; R, right. | ||||||||
| 1 | 40 231 | R | + | + | ||||
| 2 | 43 992 | R | + | + | + | +* | + | + |
| 3 | 102 414 | R | + | + | + | |||
| 4 | 32 898 | L | + | + | +† | + | ||
| 5 | 31 313 | R | + | |||||
| 6 | 40 773 | L | + | + | ||||
| 7 | 68 562 | L | + | + | ||||
| 8 | 22 700 | L | + | + | +† | + | ||
| 9 | 5463 | L | + | + | ||||