Journal
PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 7, Pages 729-749Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-008-0817-x
Keywords
leukodystrophies; pediatric neuroimaging; MRI; white matter
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Pediatric neurodegenerative white matter processes are complex, numerous and result from a vast array of causes ranging from white matter injury or inflammation to congenital metabolic disorders. When faced with a neurodegenerative white matter process on neuroimaging, the first step for the radiologist is to determine whether the findings represent a congenital metabolic leukodystrophy or one of various other white matter processes. In this review we first describe a general approach to neurodegenerative white matter disorders. We will briefly describe a few white matter diseases that mimic metabolic leukodystrophies. In the second half of the review we discuss an approach to distinguishing and classifying white matter leukodystrophies.
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