title: Diffuse cerebral white matter T2-weighted hyperintensity: a new finding of general paresis.
abstract: General paresis (parenchymatous neurosyphilis) is a rare disease, and in recent years the number of papers published on the magnetic resonance imaging findings has been limited. The findings are as follows: cerebral atrophy; mesiotemporal T2 hyperintensity; ventriculomegaly; pathological T2 hypointensity of the globus pallidus, putamen, the head of the caudate nucleus and thalamus. We present a new finding, diffuse cerebral white matter T2 hyperintensity, observed in a patient with general paresis with a 5-year history of progressive dementia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Division of Medical Intelligence and Informatics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. falam53@yahoo.com
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alam
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yasutomi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Horiguchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohshita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001284:Atrophy; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000473:pathology; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D005917:Globus Pallidus / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009494:Neurosyphilis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D011699:Putamen / Q000473:pathology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D013788:Thalamus / Q000473:pathology