[A patient with white matter involvement and superficial hemosiderosis of the central nervous system]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 2002 Feb;158(2):215-7.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We present a patient with a superficial siderosis and a white matter involvement on MRI and a demyelinating pattern on visual evoked potentials. White matter involvement is supposed to be secondary to vascular modifications induced by superficial siderosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Brain / blood supply
  • Brain / pathology
  • Cerebellar Ataxia / etiology*
  • Cervical Vertebrae / surgery*
  • Chronic Disease
  • Demyelinating Diseases / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Demyelinating Diseases / complications
  • Demyelinating Diseases / diagnosis
  • Demyelinating Diseases / pathology*
  • Diskectomy*
  • Evoked Potentials, Visual
  • Ferritins / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Hearing Loss, Bilateral / etiology*
  • Hearing Loss, Central / etiology*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications
  • Hemianopsia / etiology
  • Hemosiderosis / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Hemosiderosis / complications
  • Hemosiderosis / diagnosis
  • Hemosiderosis / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / complications
  • Intervertebral Disc Displacement / surgery*
  • Iron / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Meningeal Arteries / pathology
  • Middle Aged
  • Postoperative Complications / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis
  • Postoperative Complications / etiology
  • Postoperative Complications / pathology*
  • Spinal Cord / blood supply
  • Spinal Cord / pathology
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / complications*

Substances

  • Ferritins
  • Iron