Striatonigral degeneration: clinical, MRI, and pathologic correlation.

O'Brien, C; Sung, J H; McGeachie, R E; Lee, M C · Neurology · 1990

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We report a patient with striatonigral degeneration in whom T2-weighted MRI imaging revealed low signal and atrophy in the putamen. Neuropathologic studies confirmed putaminal atrophy and iron deposition in the MRI low signal regions.

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