Acute hippocampal infarction

Case contributed by Alexandra Stanislavsky
Diagnosis almost certain

Presentation

Patient presenting with intermittent short term memory loss.

CT demonstrates hypoattenuation in the region of the left hippocampus in keeping with an acute hippocampal infarction. Frontal meningioma.

mri

On subsequent MRI, there is swelling of the left hippocampus with T2 and DWI hyperintensity involving the hippocampal body and tail, consistent with acute hippocampal infarction.

There is also a meningioma arising from the planum sphenoidale.

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