title: [Magnetic resonance imaging of hypothalamic hamartoma].
abstract: Magnetic resonance (MR) findings of two patients with a hypothalamic hamartoma are discussed. The two girls showed clinical symptoms and endocrinological signs of precocious puberty. MR imaging was of diagnostic value superior to that of CT in the demonstration of the characteristic location of this tumor and relationships to the neighboring structures because of its multi-dimensional utility. Although it has been reported that CT showed this lesion as isodense to the grey matter with and without injection of contrast medium, MR imaging depicted the lesion as a high signal intensity area on T 2-weighted images in both patients. MR imaging is a useful method for the evaluation of the hypothalamic hamartoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kanazawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uozumi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakoda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamanaka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kihara
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kagawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kajima
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007029:Hypothalamic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging