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Fig. 27

From: MRI of acute neck infections: evidence summary and pictorial review

Fig. 27

Thrombosis of the internal jugular vein (arrows) associated with Lemierre’s syndrome in a teenager with a throat infection, demonstrated on axial fat-suppressed T2-weighted (a) and post-contrast T1-weighted (b) images. Thrombosis may be difficult to detect on standard MRI sequences. Here, the lack of flow void is seen on the T2-weighted image (a), whereas the hypointense thrombus is difficult to separate from the flow void on the T1-weighted image (b)

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