FINDINGS: There is an area of decreased density with loss of grey-white matter differentiation and effaced sulci in the left parietal lobe . Small hypodensity in the left caudate head.
No acute haemorrhage, no relevant midline shift, no other acute findings.
CONCLUSION: acute ischaemic infarction in the territory of the left middle cerebral artery, questionably also in the anterior cerebral artery territory (caudate head).