title: Use and interpretation of MRI in radio-anatomical evaluation of metabolic or toxic brain stem lesions.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Radiologie, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Girard
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Raybaud
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: du Lac
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents