Progressive spinal cord atrophy in manifest and premanifest Huntington's disease

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017 Jul;88(7):614-616. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2016-315000. Epub 2017 Feb 16.

Authors

Weike Wilhelms¹, Barbara Bellenberg¹, Odo Köster¹, Florian Weiler², Rainer Hoffmann³, Ralf Gold³, Carsten Saft³, Carsten Lukas¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
² Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS, Bremen, Germany.
³ Department of Neurology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.

PMID: 28209652
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2016-315000

No abstract available

Keywords: Huntington’s disease; MRI; spinal cord atrophy.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Atrophy
Brain / diagnostic imaging*
Brain / pathology
Case-Control Studies
Female
Humans
Huntington Disease / diagnostic imaging*
Huntington Disease / pathology
Huntington Disease / physiopathology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Prodromal Symptoms*
Spinal Cord / diagnostic imaging*
Spinal Cord / pathology