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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Tract Degeneration | 9A1 Infarct, remote (4 years), (Case 8) 13

This patient developed a hemorrhagic infarct involving the left hemispheric internal capsule causing degeneration of much of the descending pathways on that side. The patient survived for another 4 years before dying. ---- There is loss of tissue involving part of the frontoparietal and dorsal temporal cortices and much of the internal capsule. Note the ipsilateral hydrocephalus ex vacuo.

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