Hyperintense cortical signal on magnetic resonance imaging reflects focal leukocortical encephalitis and seizure risk in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 659-669

  Khoury, Michael N ^a,c   Alsop, David C ^b   Agnihotri, Shruti P ^a   Pfannl, Rolf ^a   Wuthrich, Christian ^a   Ho, Mai Lan ^b   Hackney, David ^b   Ngo, Long ^a   Anderson, Matthew P ^a   Koralnik, Igor J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERINTENSE CORTICAL SIGNAL; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; JC VIRUS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902273917     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.24144     Document Type: Article

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