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CT scan performed after the two admissions. Panel A shows CT scan performed two days after the left ischemic lacune appearance. Panels B and C show CT scans performed 3 and 6 days after the right MDN lacune appearance, two years after the left lacune.
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She was completely asymptomatic when admitted on ward, and the event was interpreted as Transient Ischemic event, but a CT scan performed two days after this first event, showed an isolated hypodensity in the left MDN (Fig. 1A). A CT scan performed two days after onset of confabulations showed the appearance of right MDN hypodensity (Fig. 1A-B).
MRI scan performed after second admission. Figure show MRI performed 8 days after the right MDN lacune appearance.
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The patient underwent MRI at day 7 after the onset of confabulations and confirmed the presence of bilateral ischemic thalamic lesions (Fig. 2).