Summary
76 patients suffering from different basal ganglia diseases (28 cases with M. Parkinson, secondary parkinsonism and Parkinson diseases; 5 cases with Chorea Huntington; 5 cases with Fahr disease and 38 cases with M. Wilson) MRI featured 2 characteristical patterns:
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abnormal deposition of minerals,
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focal atrophies of involved organs.
Thus MRI provides with informations about:
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differential diagnosis in clinically misleading courses,
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stage and, as a consequence, prognosis of some diseases,
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biochemical processes of diseases in vivo.
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Wimberger, D., Prayer, L., Kramer, J., Binder, H., Imhof, H. (1991). MRI in basal ganglia diseases. In: Deecke, L., Dal-Bianco, P. (eds) Age-associated Neurological Diseases. Journal of Neural Transmission, vol 33. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9135-4_21
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