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Cortical blindness following a sequential posterior cerebral infarction

Imaging from a 77-year-old hypertensive male who was well functioning before a recent stroke. He was noted to have a profound change in his visual behavior, such that he would claim to be watching TV when he was looking out the window. He was noted to be cortically blind. Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) and corresponding ADC map showed evidence of extensive diffusion restriction consistent with a new left occipital infarct (white arrow). T2 FLAIR also shows the remote right occipital infarct (white arrowhead). The sequential new infarct caused him to be suddenly cortically blind with Anton syndrome. (Contributed by Dr. Sangeeta Khanna.)

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