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종결 Case No. 206 2010-04-05~2010-04-18
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Period 2010-04-05~2010-04-18
Diagnosis
Clinical information 48 year-old women with DM and CRF was performed hemodialysis. She was complained insonmia, acalcuria, and showed confusional mental status.
Discussion Extrapontine myelinolysis or osmotic demyelination syndrome

Imaging findings
양측 basal ganglia는 edematous swelling을 보이고, 이 병변은 확산 강조 영상에서 고신호 강도를 보이며 ADC map에서 다양한 정도의 diffusion restriction을 보인다.

Osmotic demyelniation syndrome: central pontine myelinolysis and/or extrapontine myelinolysis

1.Definition: aute demyelination caused by rapid shifts in serum osmolality
-Classic setting: rapid correction of hyponatremia
-But can occur in normonatremic patients
-EPM can occur without CPM.
2. Location
-CPM: 50%
- EPM: 50%
-Basal ganglia, cerebral white matter

3. MR
-T2W1: confluent hyperintensity in central ponswith sparing of periphery and corticospinal tracts
Symmetric hyperintensity in BG, WM (EPM)
-DWI: restricted (mildly hyperintense)
-ADC: variable, normal to mildly hyperintense

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