Clinico-topographic correlation of small vertebrobasilar infarct using magnetic resonance imaging.

Abstract

Neurological, CT and high-field (1.5T) magnetic rosonance imaging (MRI) data were correlated in 6 patients previously clinically diagnosed as having suffered small vertebrobasilar infarct. MRI demonstrated infarcts in areas where CT was nearly always negative. MRI allowed very precise clinicotopographic correlations and appears to be the preferred imaging technique in vertebrobasilar infarcts.