The magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings of extrapontine myelinolysis in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

• DOI: 10.1007/s10072-011-0729-7
• Publication Date: 2011-08-17T09:13:57Z
• Authors: Hulya Aslan; Fuldem Y. Donmez; O. Koray Hekimoglu; Huseyin G. Tore
• Keywords: Aspartic Acid; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma; Creatine; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Choline; 3. Good health; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Myelinolysis, Central Pontine; Humans; Female; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

The magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy findings of extrapontine myelinolysis have been rarely reported. Herein, we present MR spectroscopy findings as well as the conventional MR and diffusion MR findings of an acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient with extrapontine myelinolysis. Advanced MR imaging including diffusion-weighted imaging and MR spectroscopy may be helpful to exclude other pathologies in the differential diagnosis and make the diagnosis when there is a diagnostic difficulty on cases clinically suspicious for extrapontine myelinolysis.