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Leukodystrophy in children: a pictorial review of MR imaging features

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Cheon, Jung-Eun; Kim, In-One; Hwang, Yong Seung; Kim, Ki Joong; Wang, Kyu-Chang; Cho, Byung-Kyu; Chi, Je Geun; Kim, Chong Jai; Kim, Woo Sun; Yeon, Kyung Mo

Issue Date
2002
Publisher
Radiological Society of North America
Citation
Radiographics 2002; 22:461-476
Keywords
Brain/*pathologyChild, PreschoolHereditary Central Nervous System Demyelinating Diseases/*pathologyInfantLysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System/diagnosisMitochondrial Encephalomyopathies/diagnosisPeroxisomal Disorders/diagnosisMagnetic Resonance Imaging
Abstract
Dysmyelinating diseases, or leukodystrophies, encompass a wide spectrum of inherited neurodegenerative disorders affecting the integrity of myelin in the brain and peripheral nerves. Most of these disorders fall into one of three categories-lysosomal storage diseases, peroxisomal disorders, and diseases caused by mitochondrial dysfunction-and each leukodystrophy has distinctive clinical, biochemical, pathologic, and radiologic features. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has become the primary imaging modality in patients with leukodystrophy and plays an important role in the identification, localization, and characterization of underlying white matter abnormalities in affected patients. MR imaging has also been extensively used to monitor the natural progression of various white matter disorders and the response to therapy. Although the MR imaging features of leukodystrophy are often nonspecific, systematic analysis of the finer details of disease involvement may permit a narrower differential diagnosis, which the clinician can then further refine with knowledge of patient history, clinical testing, and metabolic analysis.
ISSN
0271-5333 (Print)
Language
English
URI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=12006681

https://hdl.handle.net/10371/11126
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