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Hemolytic uremic syndrome: MR findings of CNS complications

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MR findings of a patient with hemolytic uremic syndrome involving the CNS are described. Abnormal high signal intensity on T2-weighted images combined with swelling in the lentiform nucleus, posterior limb of internal capsule, external capsule bilaterally, and left extreme capsule was shown on initial MR; a small low signal intensity in the left putamen on T1-and T2-weighted images and generalized atrophy in the area of high signal intensity on previous T2-weighted images was shown on follow-up MR. These findings indicate infarct with focal hemorrhage, which is one of the histopathological features of CNS complication in hemolytic uremic syndrome.

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Jeong, Y.K., Kim, I.O., Kim, W.S. et al. Hemolytic uremic syndrome: MR findings of CNS complications. Pediatr Radiol 24, 585–586 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02012739

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