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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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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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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002470050614