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We describe two educational autopsy cases of severe central nervous system (CNS) infection and septic emboli, such cases having been difficult to differentiate from acute infarctions via emergency MR imaging studies. We briefly discuss the pathology and MR findings along with radiopathological correlation.

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radio-pathological correlation septic emboli MRI CNS infection

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Significance of Radio-Pathological Correlations: Differentiating Severe Central Nervous System Infection from Acute Embolic Infarction

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