Use and interpretation of MRI in radio-anatomical evaluation of metabolic or toxic brain stem lesions.
Children with metabolic or toxic diseases affecting the brain stem were examined by MRI in an attempt to obtain images of brain stem systematization fibres and to determine their origin. A toxic cause may be envisaged in hazy, ill-systematized lesions, and a metabolic cause in well-systematized lesions.
Girard
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Service de Radiologie, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France.
Raybaud
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du Lac
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D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D012012:Red Nucleus / Q000473:pathology; D013378:Substantia Nigra / Q000473:pathology
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents