Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Diagnosis probable
Disclosures
- updated 14 May 2023:
Nothing to disclose
Updates to Case Attributes
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The patient's mother reported a history of sore throat and rhinorrhearhinorrhoea in the past few days. Multiple T2/FLAIR hypersignal white matter lesions with the appropriate clinical history led to the diagnosis of ADEM.
-<p>The patient's mother reported a history of sore throat and rhinorrhea in the past few days. <br>Multiple T2/FLAIR hypersignal white matter lesions with the appropriate clinical history led to the diagnosis of ADEM. </p>- +<p>The patient's mother reported a history of sore throat and rhinorrhoea in the past few days. Multiple T2/FLAIR hypersignal white matter lesions with the appropriate clinical history led to the diagnosis of <a href="/articles/acute-disseminated-encephalomyelitis-adem-1" title="Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM)">ADEM</a>.</p>
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Age
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Updates to Study Attributes
Findings
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There are multiple indistinct regions of T2/FLAIR high signal intensity in the subcortical white matter, bilateral internal capsule, left thalamus and brainstem. The lesions are imperceptible in T1W images and do not show restricted diffusion in DWI/ADC images.
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Image MRI (FLAIR) ( update )
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Image MRI (T2) ( update )
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