White matter diseases.
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.
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Department of Radiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202.
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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