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- Holtås, Stig, et al.
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MRI in acute transverse myelopathy
- 1993
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Ingår i: Neuroradiology. - 1432-1920. ; 35:3, s. 221-226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The MRI examinations of seven patients with acute transverse myelopathy (ATM) were analysed. The patients were examined 2-5 times during the course of their disease with short and long TR/TE spin-echo sequences in the sagittal projection. A previous history of autoimmune disorder and/or signs of infection at the onset of ATM were present in all cases. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis showed local synthesis of immunoglobulin in the nervous system in three cases and signs of infectious myelitis in one. During the acute phase four patients had local enlargement of the cord and all had increased signal on long TR/TE sequences. The outcome was grave in the majority of patients and there seemed to be a correlation between the degree of cord enlargement, persistence of increased signal intensity and limited recovery. Atrophy and remaining high signal intensity were noted on late MRI in patients with poor outcome. In one patient with probable anterior spinal artery occlusion, cavitation of the cord was seen.
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- Larsson, Elna-Marie, et al.
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Aortic pathology revealed by MRI in patients with clinical suspicion of spinal disease
- 1993
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Ingår i: Neuroradiology. - 1432-1920. ; 35:7, s. 499-502
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In five patients with clinical suspicion of spinal disease, MRI of the spine revealed unexpected aortic pathology explaining the symptoms. No significant intraspinal pathology was found on MRI. However, in one patient with clinical suspicion of spinal stenosis, an aortic occlusion was detected on MR images of the spine. The lower extremity ischaemia, caused by the occlusion, was responsible for the symptoms. In another patient a paravertebral haematoma from a ruptured aortic aneurysm resulted in spinal nerve compression, thought before MRI to be caused by a spinal tumour. In three patients aortic aneurysm or dissection resulted in spinal cord ischaemia with symptoms mimicking those of compressive spinal disease. Thus, if MRI of the spine does not provide an explanation for the patient's symptoms, examination of the aorta is recommended.
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- Li, M H, et al.
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MRI of extradural spinal tumours at 0.3 T
- 1993
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Ingår i: Neuroradiology. - 1432-1920. ; 35:5, s. 370-374
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ninety-one patients with extradural spinal tumours were examined by magnetic resonance imaging. There were 76 metastases (6 from unknown primary tumours). Seven patients had primary spinal tumours and 8 had multiple myeloma. Sixteen had bulging, diseased vertebral bodies compressing the subarachnoid space and 67 had extradural tumour compressing the spinal cord. Sixty patients had paravertebral involvement. Intraspinal involvement did not correlate with the extent of spinal lesions. All patients had vertebral destruction, with hypointense or combined hypo- and isointense signal relative to bone marrow on T1-weighted images. In most of the 22 patients with T2-weighted images the tumours were isointense or slightly hyperintense. It was usually impossible to differentiate the various tumours on the basis of signal intensity and morphology. However, metastases from carcinoma of the prostate were often more hypointense than other tumours on T1- and T2-weighted images. An inhomogeneous pattern in which diffusely low signal is combined with focal lower signal on T1-weighted images may suggest myeloma. In the 22 patients examined with both T1- and T2-weighted images, T1-weighted images gave the best information in 18; in 3 they were equivalent and in 1 inferior to T2-weighted images; they are therefore recommended for routine imaging of epidural spinal tumours.
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- Åkeson, Per, et al.
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Radiological investigation of neurofibromatosis type 2
- 1994
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Ingår i: Neuroradiology. - 1432-1920. ; 36:2, s. 107-110
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The radiological findings in six patients fulfilling the criteria of neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) were reviewed. Subtle cutaneous lesions were found in three. All patients had bilateral acoustic schwannomas; two had small acoustic tumours and normal hearing. In these patients the presenting symptoms were caused by multiple intracranial meningiomas and spinal neurofibromas, respectively, whereas the remaining four patients presented with hearing loss. Two patients had other cranial nerve tumours. Three patients had rapidly growing multiple intracranial meningiomas; two had multiple spinal neurofibromas and one a spinal meningioma. NF2 is a rare disease with few cutaneous but frequent, typical radiological findings in the central nervous system. The presenting symptom is most commonly hearing loss due to acoustic schwannomas, although symptoms emanating from other intracranial or tumours are not uncommon. The discovery of multiple meningiomas or multiple spinal neurofibromas without cutaneous lesions should initiate a search for acoustic schwannomas even when the patient has normal hearing.
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