Magnetic resonance imaging in central pontine myelinolysis.
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 52 (5) , 675-677
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.52.5.675
Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed in two patients in whom a clinical diagnosis of central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) had been made. MRI showed lesions in the pons in both cases about 2 years after the illness, at a time when the spastc quadriparesis and pseudobulbar palsy had recovered. The persisting abnormal signals in CPM are likely to be due to fibrillary gliosis. Persistence of lesions on MRI means that the diagnosis of CPM may be made electively, after the acute illness has resolved.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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