Magnetic-Resonance Diffusion-Tensor Tractography in the Diagnosis of Tumefactive Spinal-Cord Lesions in Neuromyelitis Optica.

Yung Hsu, Ming-Chung Chou, Poh-Shiow Yeh, Te-Chang Wu, Ching-Chung Ko, Tai-Yuan Chen

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yung HsuDepartment of Medical Imaging, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 710, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-2435-911X

Ming-Chung ChouDepartment of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-8488-2693

Poh-Shiow YehDepartment of Neurology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 710, Taiwan.

Te-Chang WuDepartment of Medical Imaging, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 710, Taiwan.

Ching-Chung KoDepartment of Medical Imaging, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 710, Taiwan.

Tai-Yuan ChenDepartment of Medical Imaging, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 710, Taiwan.

Chi Mei Medical Center · TWKaohsiung Medical University · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TW

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Abstract

Magnetic-resonance (MR) imaging is the modality of choice for the evaluation of spinal-cord lesions. However, challenges persist in discriminating demyelinating processes from neoplastic lesions using conventional MR sequences. Consequently, an invasive spinal-cord biopsy is likely for most patients. MR diffusion-tensor imaging is an emerging noninvasive and powerful method for characterizing changes in tissue microstructure associated with spinal disorders. We currently present the case of a middle-aged woman suffering from neuromyelitis optica, and highlight that MR diffusion-tensor tractography can be helpful in the identification of tumefactive spinal-cord lesions.

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diffusion-tensor imagingdiffusion-tensor tractographymagnetic-resonance imagingneuromyelitis opticaspinal cordtumefactive

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DOI10.3390/diagnostics10060401

PMCPMC7344653

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