Hockey stick sign (brain)

Case contributed by Frank Gaillard
Diagnosis not applicable
Diagram

The hockey stick sign is an MRI brain finding describing the combination of hyperintensity of the pulvinar and medial thalamus.

Case Discussion

The hockey stick sign is besk known as a feature of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, best seen on b=1000 images, but a similar appearance can be seen in Wernicke encephalopathy.

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