The magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings of extrapontine myelinolysis in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

• Published in: Neurological sciences Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 391 - 394
• Main Authors: Aslan, Hulya, Donmez, Fuldem Y., Hekimoglu, O. Koray, Tore, Huseyin G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Milan Springer Milan 01.04.2012; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acute lymphatic leukemia; Aspartic Acid - analogs & derivatives; Aspartic Acid - metabolism; Case Report; Choline - metabolism; Creatine - metabolism; Demyelination; Differential diagnosis; Diffusion; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy - methods; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Myelinolysis, Central Pontine - diagnosis; Myelinolysis, Central Pontine - etiology; N.M.R; Neurology; Neuroradiology; Neurosciences; Neurosurgery; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma - complications; Psychiatry; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Young Adult; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Extrapontine myelinolysis
• ISSN: 1590-1874; 1590-3478
• DOI: 10.1007/s10072-011-0729-7

The magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy findings of extrapontine myelinolysis have been rarely reported. Herein, we present MR spectroscopy findings as well as the conventional MR and diffusion MR findings of an acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient with extrapontine myelinolysis. Advanced MR imaging including diffusion-weighted imaging and MR spectroscopy may be helpful to exclude other pathologies in the differential diagnosis and make the diagnosis when there is a diagnostic difficulty on cases clinically suspicious for extrapontine myelinolysis.