Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: brain stem involvement in a peculiar pattern.
The most common pattern in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, is in the cerebral hemisphere white matter on T2-weighted images with or without atrophy. Brain-stem lesions are rare. We report brain-stem involvement in two children with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. A peculiar pattern, with involvement of the pons with extension to both middle cerebellar peduncles and substantia nigra but sparing the pontine tegmentum, is suggested.
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Akdeniz University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiodiagnostics, 07070 Antalya/Turkey. yigiter@med.akdeniz.edu.tr
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D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013344:Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*