title: Radiographic findings in type 3b Gaucher disease.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe the radiographic findings in type 3 b Gaucher disease, a chronic neuronopathic form of the illness with severe systemic manifestations. Between 1980 and 1985 17 consecutive patients were evaluated with radiography of the chest, long bones and spine, CT of the head and chest, abdominal sonography, and MRI of the head, abdomen and spine. Clinical manifestations were severe, and led to death from hepatic, pulmonary or cardiac failure in nine patients. Type 3 b Gaucher disease shares the same spectrum of radiographic findings observed in type 1 disease, but the systemic manifestations are more severe. Pulmonary infiltrates, thoracic lymph node enlargement, vertebral compression fractures and osteonecrosis of the long bones occur much more frequently in patients with type 3 b disease.
authors.affiliation: Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1 C-660, 10 Center DR MSC 1182, Bethesda, MD 20892-1182, USA.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Damaska
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsokos
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kreps
authors.forename: R O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Brady
authors.forename: N W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Barton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005776:Gaucher Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed