Acute Marchiafava-Bignami disease with widespread callosal and cortical lesions
Min-Jeong Kim1, Jong-Kuk Kim, Bong-Goo Yoo
1Department of Neurology, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
Abstract:
Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD) is a rare alcohol-related disorder that results in progressive demyelination and necrosis of the corpus callosum. The process may extend to the optic chiasm and tracts, cerebellar peduncle, subcortical resion, neighboring white matter, and rarely, cortical gray matter. We report a case of MBD in which fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging studies revealed symmetrical hyperintense lesions in the cerebral cortex in addition to the callosal lesions.
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