Published ahead of print on April 16, 2008
doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A1099
Olfactory Anomalies in CHARGE Syndrome: Imaging Findings of a Potential Major Diagnostic Criterion
J. Blustajna,
C.F.E. Kirschb,
A. Panigrahyc and
I. Netchined
a Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild, Paris, France
b David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Calif
c Children's Hospital, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
d APHP, Hôpital Armand-Trousseau, Explorations Fonctionnelles Endocriniennes and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France

View larger version (149K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
|
Fig 1. Coronal T2-weighted MR image through the anterior fossa in a 21-day-old neonate with CHARGE syndrome shows bilateral absence of olfactory bulbs and sulci.
| |

View larger version (122K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
|
Fig 2. Coronal T2-weighted MR image through the anterior fossa in a 15-day-old neonate with CHARGE syndrome shows hypoplasia of the right olfactory bulb (white arrow) and absence of the left olfactory bulb.
| |

View larger version (113K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
|
Fig 3. Coronal T1-weighted MR image through the anterior fossa in a 42-day-old infant with CHARGE syndrome shows asymmetrically hypoplastic right olfactory sulcus and absent left olfactory sulcus.
| |