Abstract

There are some difficulties in the evaluation of the lesions on cranial computed tomograpy (CT) in the early diagnosis of acute stroke. In this study we performed early magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on 39 patients who had primary diagnosis of acute stroke and exact diagnosis can not be confirmed by cranial CT. Mean age was 52.71 and there were 16 male and 23 female patients. 28 patients diagnosed as acute stroke on MRI, only 9 of them had pathology on CT. Hemorragic acute stroke in 8 patients and cerebral aneurysm in 2 patients had some pathology on MRI, in 19 patients there were no pathology on CT. On the patients who had hemorragic acute stroke and cerebral aneurysmal dilatation, there were no difference between MRI and CT. In conclusion, MRI is more valuable than CT in early diagnosis and planning the treatment of occlusive acute stroke.