[Traumatic, infectious or degenerative pathology].
CRANIO-ENCEPHALIC TRAUMAS: Scanography remains the examination of choice. However, MRI can be useful in diagnosis of diffuse axional lesions, not clearly visualized with scanography, and for screening the subsequent lesions. INFECTIOUS OR INFLAMMATORY LESIONS: Some are very evocative with MRI: cerebral abscesses, notably herpetic encephalitis and Creutzfeldt-Jacob's disease. If multiple sclerosis is suspected, MRI is considered as the principle para-clinical examination able to confirm the diagnosis with the first episode. It also supplies data for the diagnosis of metabolic, toxic and degenerative diseases.
Meder
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Département d'Imagerie Morphologique et Fonctionnelle, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, 1 rue Cabanis, Paris. meder@chsa.broca.inserm.fr
Brami-Zylberberg
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Oppenheim
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Méary
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Martinez-Lozano
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Delvat
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Frédy
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D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D020833:Diffuse Axonal Injury / Q000175:diagnosis; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008581:Meningitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*