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What does hypodensity in the cerebral white matter mean?

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Context: This is highly dependent on what the clinical context is, and could mean a variety of different things. You should speak with your ordering physician who can discuss in the context of the clinical situation.

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Answered 7/6/2017

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I'm 21 year old boy and I'm suffering from headache since childhood and I've done ct brain scan and report says that There is small 6-7mm sized ill defined Hypodensity noted involving left parietal lobe s/o acute infract , is this serious?

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Normal brain parenchyma apart from 1.1 x 0.9 cm hypodense area seen at the right high parietal region with no associated surrounding edema or mass effect might be related to old insults rather than neuroglial cysts. could this be tumor?

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