Spinal cord involvement and contrast enhancement in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome

Although posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a widely encountered clinicoradiological entity, spinal cord involvement on MRI is very rarely reported. We found only eight cases that have been reported so far. Reports of post-contrast meningeal or parenchymal enhancement in PRES are...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Himanshu, Sebastian, Leve Joseph Devarajan, Gaikwad, Shailesh B, Garg, Ajay, Mishra, Nalini Kant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30364367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150326
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author Agarwal, Himanshu
Sebastian, Leve Joseph Devarajan
Gaikwad, Shailesh B
Garg, Ajay
Mishra, Nalini Kant
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description Although posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a widely encountered clinicoradiological entity, spinal cord involvement on MRI is very rarely reported. We found only eight cases that have been reported so far. Reports of post-contrast meningeal or parenchymal enhancement in PRES are even rarer. Herein we report a case of PRES with extensive spinal cord signal abnormality with contrast enhancement. Familiarity with this rare imaging finding of PRES, in the appropriate clinical setting, will avoid unnecessary investigations and inappropriate treatment.
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spelling pubmed-61959392018-10-25 Spinal cord involvement and contrast enhancement in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome Agarwal, Himanshu Sebastian, Leve Joseph Devarajan Gaikwad, Shailesh B Garg, Ajay Mishra, Nalini Kant BJR Case Rep Case Report Although posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a widely encountered clinicoradiological entity, spinal cord involvement on MRI is very rarely reported. We found only eight cases that have been reported so far. Reports of post-contrast meningeal or parenchymal enhancement in PRES are even rarer. Herein we report a case of PRES with extensive spinal cord signal abnormality with contrast enhancement. Familiarity with this rare imaging finding of PRES, in the appropriate clinical setting, will avoid unnecessary investigations and inappropriate treatment. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6195939/ /pubmed/30364367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150326 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Spinal cord involvement and contrast enhancement in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
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