Diffuse cerebral white matter T2-weighted hyperintensity: a new finding of general paresis.
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.
Alam
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Department of Radiology, Division of Medical Intelligence and Informatics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. falam53@yahoo.com
Yasutomi
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H
Fukuda
H
H
Horiguchi
J
J
Murakami
Y
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Ohshita
T
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Inoue
K
K
Ito
K
K
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