Alexander Disease

Main teaching point: The main differential diagnosis of leukodystrophy associated with macrocephaly consists of Alexander disease, Canavan disease, and megalencephalic leukodystrophy with subcortical cysts. Distinguishing imaging characteristics of Alexander disease are an apicoposterior gradient of...

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Autores principales: Hartog, Laura, Dekeyzer, Sven, Bossche, Stephanie Vanden
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2021
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Images in Clinical Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8533653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34723085
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.2588
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description Main teaching point: The main differential diagnosis of leukodystrophy associated with macrocephaly consists of Alexander disease, Canavan disease, and megalencephalic leukodystrophy with subcortical cysts. Distinguishing imaging characteristics of Alexander disease are an apicoposterior gradient of white matter involvement and a periventricular T2-hypointense rim.
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spelling pubmed-85336532021-10-29 Alexander Disease Hartog, Laura Dekeyzer, Sven Bossche, Stephanie Vanden J Belg Soc Radiol Images in Clinical Radiology Main teaching point: The main differential diagnosis of leukodystrophy associated with macrocephaly consists of Alexander disease, Canavan disease, and megalencephalic leukodystrophy with subcortical cysts. Distinguishing imaging characteristics of Alexander disease are an apicoposterior gradient of white matter involvement and a periventricular T2-hypointense rim. Ubiquity Press 2021-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8533653/ /pubmed/34723085 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.2588 Text en Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8533653/
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