Non-progressive leukoencephalopathy with bilateral temporal cysts
| Autor: | José Pedro Vieira, António Levy Gomes, Joana Saldanha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Microcephaly Pathology Central Nervous System Cysts/diagnosis HDE NEU PED Neurological disorder Leukoencephalopathy Central Nervous System Cysts Child Cerebral Cortex Cytomegalovirus infections medicine.diagnostic_test Intellectual Disability/diagnosis General Medicine Magnetic Resonance Imaging Temporal Lobe Cytomegalovirus Infections/diagnosis medicine.anatomical_structure Child Preschool Cytomegalovirus Infections Female Cerebral Cortex/pathology medicine.medical_specialty Doenças desmielinizantes Dominance Cerebral/physiology White matter Infecções por citomegalovirus Diagnosis Differential Intellectual Disability medicine Humans Demyelinating Diseases/diagnosis Dominance Cerebral Cytomegalovirus Infections/congenital Progressive leukoencephalopathy business.industry Infant Newborn Infant Magnetic resonance imaging Infant Low Birth Weight medicine.disease Demyelinating diseases Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Etiology Neurology (clinical) Differential diagnosis business Demyelinating Diseases Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 1090-3798 |
| Popis: | We report two cases of a peculiar leukoencephalopathy with temporal cysts. Both patients have a non-progressive neurological disorder with mental retardation, microcephaly and sensorineural deafness although clinical differences between them may reflect a different aetiology. The metabolic disorders with white matter involvement and the recently described leukoencephalopathies (Van Der Knaap disease, 'vanishing white matter disease') were excluded based on clinical, biologic and imaging findings. Cytomegalovirus infection is a likely possibility in the first case although the magnetic resonance imaging picture is only partially similar to previously reported cases. Our patients are strikingly similar to the patients reported by Deonna et al. and Olivier et al. We discuss the clinical and imaging findings in our patients and the differential diagnosis considering the known disorders of the white matter in childhood. |
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