AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS - UNILATERAL T-2-SHORTENING ON MRI

Authors
KARANTANAS AH
Citation
Ah. Karantanas, AMYOTROPHIC-LATERAL-SCLEROSIS - UNILATERAL T-2-SHORTENING ON MRI, Computerized medical imaging and graphics, 22(4), 1998, pp. 353-355
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
Computerized medical imaging and graphics → ACNP
ISSN journal
08956111
Volume
22
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
353 - 355
Database
ISI
SICI code
0895-6111(1998)22:4<353:A-UTOM>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can cause hyperintese lesions in t he corticospinal tract but rarely can also cause T-2 shortening in the motor cortex bilaterally. The present case of ALS showed unilateral T 2 Shortening of the superior parietal lobule without corticospinal tra ct changes. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.