[Imaging of acute brain inflammatory disease]. / Imaging della patologia infiammatoria acuta dell'encefalo.
Clin Ter
; 158(5): 465-76, 2007.
Article
em It
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18062355
ABSTRACT
The central nervous system inflammatory disease can be due to any kind of infective agent (bacterial viral, fungal and parasitic), but entails also multiple sclerosis, a primary demyelinating disease in which the causal agent is unknown. MR imaging is, in most often, the procedure of choice, due to her multiplanar and multiparametric imaging, and to her better contrast resolution. The post-contrast imaging with double dose of gadolinium and late sequences enable visualisation of smallest pathologic foci or slightest blood-brain barrier alterations, with a sensibility very higher than post-contrast CT scan. In addition, RM provide to many functional informations, by means of diffusion, perfusion and spectroscopy studies, Bold technique for cortical activation studies and Fiber Tracking technique, in order to demonstrate pathologic modification earlier than they are evident on morphologic imaging. Functional imaging is also employed to monitor response to treatment and damage reversibility.
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3_ND
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Encéfalo
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Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética
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Encefalite
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Esclerose Múltipla
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
It
Revista:
Clin Ter
Ano de publicação:
2007
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Article