Cerebral artery thrombosis as a cause of striatocapsular infarction - A histopathological case study

Striatocapsular infarction is a distinct form of stroke, but few histopatho logical studies have been performed concerning acute lesions. We report the postmortem findings of a patient with an infarct who died shortly after on set. A 72-year-old man died of acute myocardial infarction 6 days after the onset of left-sided striatocapsular infarction. Autopsy revealed thrombus formation of the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) trunk. The lateral stria te arteries irrigating the area of the infarct branched off distal to the a rterial segment occluded with a thrombus. The cortical vessels were perfuse d by leptomeningeal collaterals. This report histopathologically confirmed thrombus formation of the MCA resulting in striatocapsular infarction, Copy right (C) 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel.