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Title
A RARE CASE OF SPACE OCCUPYING LESION OF BRAINSTEM IN AN ELDERLY MALE PATIENT
Authors
S, Jayanth S
Description
An elderly male patient aged 65 presented to us with history of swaying towards left side of the body since 1 month with normal higher mental functions and neurological examination suggestive of cerebellar ataxia. MRI Brain plus contrast was suggestive of an irregular, ill-defined heterogeneous enhancing lesion with few necrotic areas within and few foci of blooming on FFE (Fast Field Echo imaging technique) with significant perilesional oedema involving right thalamus and brainstem showing Choline peak on MR Spectroscopy.
Keywords: Neurological examination; Cerebellar ataxia; MRI brain; FFE.
Source
International Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Research; Volume 4, Issue 4; October 2018.; 39-41
Publisher
Sumathi Publications
Rights
Copyright (c) 2018 Jayanth S S, Ambali A P, M S Mulimani
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Date
2018-10-30
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng