title: White matter diseases.
abstract: White matter disease is imaged with great sensitivity and poor specificity on MRI. Congenital, vascular, infectious, and autoimmune diseases as well as those with many other causes, may create similar-appearing lesions on MR. A knowledge of disease patterns and pulse sequences may improve the diagnostic specificity, but there is no substitute for an adequate clinical history.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202.
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D002549:Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging