Hosokawa C, Inoue Y, Yoshimura H, Morimoto A, Hayashi H, Yamada T, Funato M, Morikawa Y
Department of Radiology, Yodogawa Christian Hospital, Osaka City, Japan.
J Comput Assist Tomogr. 1998 Nov-Dec;22(6):980-3. doi: 10.1097/00004728-199811000-00025.
We report the case of an infant with Sturge-Weber syndrome whose regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) showed an increase and a subsequent decrease. As compared with simultaneous CT and MR findings, we speculate that the transient increase in rCBF reflects the neuronal reaction to hypoxia caused by congestion.