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Original Article

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and MRI Tractography in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy-Like Syndrome

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Pages 64-68 | Received 26 Oct 2014, Accepted 28 Nov 2014, Published online: 04 May 2015
 

ABSTRACT

An 18-year-old woman underwent an uneventful ascending aortic aneurysm repair then developed progressive supranuclear palsy-like syndrome. Extensive neuroimaging including contrasted fat-suppressed cranial and orbital magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MRI tractography, and functional MRI (fMRI) revealed no clear radiographic involvement except for a single tiny hypoechoic midbrain dot on the T2*-weighted gradient-echo imaging, which is not considered sufficient to account for the patient’s deficits. This case attests to the occult nature of this rare and devastating syndrome.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This work was supported in part by an unrestricted grant from the Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, New York, USA.

Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

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