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Necrosis and haemorrhage of the putamen in methanol poisoning shown on MRI
K Kuteifan1, H Oesterlé, T Tajahmady
1Service de Réanimation Médicale, Centre hospitalier Louis Pasteur, Colmar, France.
Neuroradiology
|April 30, 1998
Abstract:
Methanol, a highly toxic substance, is used as an industrial solvent and in automobile antifreeze. Acute methanol poisoning produces severe metabolic acidosis and serious neurologic sequelae. We describe a 50-year-old woman with accidental methanol intoxication who was in a vegetative state. MRI showed haemorrhagic necrosis of the putamina and oedema in the deep white matter.