PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Masucci, E F
AU  - Borts, F T
AU  - Smirniotopoulos, J G
AU  - Kurtzke, J F
AU  - Schellinger, D
TI  - Thin-section CT of midbrain abnormalities in progressive supranuclear palsy.
DP  - 1985 Sep 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 767--772
VI  - 6
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/6/5/767.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/6/5/767.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1985 Sep 01; 6
AB  - Thin-section computed tomographic (CT) scans of 3 and 1.5 mm thickness were obtained using the Philips Tomoscan 310 and General Electric 8800 CT/T scanners in the study of 10 consecutive patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and 31 patients with other diseases. Marked midbrain and moderate pontine atrophy, a dilated third ventricle, and enlarged quadrigeminal plate cisterns were observed in all PSP cases. The aqueduct was dilated in several. In six of the PSP cases, there was a striking midbrain abnormality in the form of a low-density area extending from the interpeduncular cistern toward the aqueduct. Thin-section metrizamide-enhanced cisternography of three of the six PSP cases showed that the low-density abnormality was the result of the interpeduncular cistern invaginating the atrophic midbrain.