Infarction [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== Infarction ======

Tissue death ([[necrosis]]) caused by a local lack of [[oxygen]], due to an obstruction of the tissue's blood supply.[[Myocardial infarction]]

The resulting lesion is referred to as an [[infarct]] (from the Latin infarctus, "stuffed into").


see [[Necrosis]] from [[infarction]]
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If an old [[infarct]] communicates with a [[ventricle]] it is called a [[porencephalic cyst]].

===== Brainstem infarction =====

[[Brainstem infarction]].

===== Cerebral infarction =====

see [[Cerebral infarction]].

===== Cerebellar infarction =====

see [[Cerebellar infarction]].

===== Malignant middle cerebral artery territory infarction =====

see [[Malignant middle cerebral artery territory infarction]].

===== Watershed cerebral infarction =====

[[Watershed cerebral infarction]].



===== Spinal cord infarction =====

[[Spinal cord infarction]]