Wallerian degeneration as a mimic of recurrence of myelitis
| Autor: | Asaff Harel, Prateeka Koul, Arpan Patel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Wallerian degeneration Myelitis 03 medical and health sciences Myelopathy 0302 clinical medicine Recurrence medicine Humans business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Cervical spine Magnetic Resonance Imaging Hyperintensity Clinical neurology Radiography Initial lesion Female Neurology (clinical) business Wallerian Degeneration 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Practical neurology. 21(3) |
| ISSN: | 1474-7766 |
| Popis: | A middle-aged woman with idiopathic longitudinally extensive myelitis underwent repeat MR scan of cervical spine at 5-month follow-up, which showed new non-enhancing T2 hyperintensities, initially reported as myelitis recurrence. However, the hyperintensities involved both lateral corticospinal tracts caudal to the initial lesion and both dorsal columns rostral to the initial lesion and were therefore compatible with Wallerian degeneration. This radiological mimic should be considered in the differential of recurrence of myelitis. |
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