May 8 update. Patient is in neurosurgery (to get titanium plate) which is very strict about visitors, but doctor who saved her let sister in. Sister reports that patient is much much better and seems normal. Speaking normally (not slowly as had been speaking days earlier). Alert. So very good news.
Here is the referto of the MRI. See the key point is that there is contusion but not detectable ischemia (suspected some small areas of ischemia somewhere). The effects should be temporary. Also Dr Veneziani says the bruised area has no known function -- when it is removed to remove a tumor, there are no known effects. So very good my effort to translate Exam rquested and executed in basal conditions with sequence t1,t2,presente, flair, GRE T2 amd with sequences weighed in diffusion according to axial, sagitale and coronal axes and with an axial sequence aiming in correspondende to the “tratto di rachide” C-4-C6 Extensive craniotomy temporal and fronto- parietal on the left. A collection of extracerebrale fluid collected near the surgical breach of maximum thickness of 18mm. Frontal and temporal bilaterally (walways more evident on the left, there is an extensive area of hyperintensity in the FLAIR and T2 sequences with some characteristics also of a hypointense component i
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