CT scan appearance in subacute necrotising encephalomyelopathy.
Three patients with subacute necrotising encephalolmyelopathy are reported, all of whose CT brain-scans showed areas of low attenuation in the basal ganglia, especially in the lenticular nucleus. The authors suggest that this brain-scan appearance may help in the diagnosis of this disorder during life.
D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001928:Brain Diseases, Metabolic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007888:Leigh Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed