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Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Analysis of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Published on: July 28, 2013
Magnetic resonance imaging in pathologically proven Hallervorden-Spatz disease
D A Schaffert1, S D Johnsen, P C Johnson
1Department of Neuropathology, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ 85013.
Neurology
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
We present an 11-year-old girl in whom high field strength MRI performed 2 1/2 years and 6 months before her death showed prominent hypointensity in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra consistent with iron deposition. This finding suggested Hallervorden-Spatz disease, which was confirmed at autopsy.

