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Reversibility of hyperintense globus pallidus on T 1-weighted MRI follow- ing surgery for a portosystemic shunt in an 8-year-old girl

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An 8-year-old Japanese girl with a portosystemic shunt had shown hyperammonaemia since she was 3 years of age. MRI of her brain showed bilateral hyperintense globus pallidus. A portosystemic shunt was evident on US and angiography. She underwent surgical banding of the shunt, after which the lesion and clinical symptoms disappeared.

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  1. Department of Paediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Medical School, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan, , , , , , JP

    S. Ikeda, Yoshihisa Sera, Mituhiro Yoshida, Hajime Ohshiro & Shinichiro Uchino

  2. Department of Paediatrics, Kumamoto University Medical School, Kumamoto, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Sasa Seguchi & Fumio Endo

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Received: 23 June 1998 Accepted: 30 November 1998

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Ikeda, S., Sera, Y., Yoshida, M. et al. Reversibility of hyperintense globus pallidus on T 1-weighted MRI follow- ing surgery for a portosystemic shunt in an 8-year-old girl. Pediatric Radiology 29, 449–450 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002470050614

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