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Brain scanning in the diencephalic syndrome

La scintigraphie cérébrale dans le syndrome diencéphalique du nourrisson

Hirnszintigraphie bei einem diencephalen Syndrom

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Two cases studies of infants with a diencephalic syndrome resulting from optic nerve glioma are presented. — In both patients an intensive midline suprasellar tracer uptake was found to be present shortly after the clinical condition was noted. — After discussing the brain scan findings in older children with similar gliomas, it was suggested that this innocuous procedure be used as an early diagnostic measure of great value in infants with this syndrome.

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Les auteurs rapportent deux observations d'un syndrome diencéphalique produit par un gliome des voies optiques. En dehors des examens neuroradiologiques classiques qui en ont confirmé l'existence, cette tumeur s'est également traduite par une intense captation à localisation suprasellaire médiane à la scintigraphie pratiquée un mois chez le premier et deux mois chez le second malade, après le début clinique de l'affection. — Après discussion des résultats fournis par la scintigraphie dans des tumeurs similaires du grand enfant et des résultats obtenus précocement dans les présentes observations, les auteurs soulignent la valeur de cette investigation peu offensante et son intérêt dans un syndrome à évolution très insidieuse chez le nourrisson.

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Beschreibung von 2 Kindern mit einem diencephalen Syndrom, das durch ein Optikusgliom hervorgerufen wurde. Bei beiden Patienten fand sich eine ausgeprägte supraselläre Mittellinienanreicherung. Der Wert dieser Untersuchungsmethode für den Nachweis derartiger Tumoren wird besprochen.

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Pelc, S., Segers-Cadranel, A., Piepsz, A. et al. Brain scanning in the diencephalic syndrome. Neuroradiology 7, 109–111 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00341879

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