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Atypical MRI findings in Canavan disease: a patient with a mild course.
Neuropediatrics - 1 Oct 2005
Yalcinkaya C, Benbir G, Salomons G S, Karaarslan E, Rolland M O, Jakobs C, van der Knaap M S
Abstract excerpt
Canavan disease is a severe, progressive leukodystrophy with an autosomal recessive inheritance, caused by aspartoacylase (ASPA) deficiency. The characteristic MRI features include diffuse, symmetrical white matter degeneration in the subcortical areas, with bilateral involvement of the globus pallidus. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain shows an increase in the concentration of N-acetylaspartic...
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