Table 1:

Summary of patient data for fractional anisotropy (FA) from the different regions of brain parenchyma collected from 10 age- and sex-matched controls and 21 patients of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

GroupsCorpus CallosumFWMPWMOWMTWMPLIC
GenuBodySplenium
a. Controls (n = 10)0.55 ± 0.050.44 ± 0.040.61 ± 0.070.24 ± 0.040.25 ± 0.040.25 ± 0.020.25 ± 0.040.49 ± 0.06
b. PNCI (n ± 11)0.42 ± 0.080.30 ± 0.080.43 ± 0.070.18 ± 0.020.18 ± 0.030.18 ± 0.040.19 ± 0.040.41 ± 0.06
c. PACI (n ± 10)0.41 ± 0.090.32 ± 0.040.33 ± 0.110.15 ± 0.030.14 ± 0.030.15 ± 0.030.17 ± 0.020.39 ± 0.05
P (FA)*Pab = .00Pab = .00Pab = .00Pab = .00Pab = .00Pab = .00Pab = .00pab = .01
Pac = .00Pac = .00Pac = .00Pac = .00Pac = .00Pac = .00Pac = .00pac = .00
Pbc = .67Pbc = .44Pbc = .03Pbc = .00Pbc = .00Pbc = .00Pbc = .00pbc = .48
  • Note:—PNCI indicates patients with normal conventional imaging; PACI, patients with abnormal conventional imaging; FWM, frontal white matter; PWM, parietal white matter; OWM, occipital white matter; TWM, temporal white matter; PLIC, posterior limb of internal capsule. Values are means ± SD.

  • * For FA values, Pab indicates a P value a vs b; Pbc, P value b vs c; Pac, P value a vs c.