title: [Contribution of position emission tomography in a case of Marchiafava Bignami disease: Morel's laminar sclerosis?].
abstract: We report the case of a 26-year old alcoholic woman who abruptly presented with confusion associated with a major hypertonia. She evolved into a chronically vegetative state. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was consistent with the diagnosis of Marchiafava Bignami disease. The corpus callosum first presented an oedematous aspect, then a central atrophy with an axial band. The clinical presentation and the functional imaging strongly suggest an association between the Marchiafava Bignami disease and diffuse cortical lesions, such as the laminar sclerosis of Morel.
authors.affiliation: Urgences cérébro-vasculaires, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Logak
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fève
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Samson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillard
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rancurel
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003337:Corpus Callosum; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013997:Time Factors; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
vernacular_title: Apport de la tomographie par émission de positons dans un cas de maladie de Marchiafava Bignami: sclérose laminaire de Morel?