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Basal ganglia T2 hyperintensity

Dr Ahmed Abd Rabou and Dr Frank Gaillard et al.

The causes of basal ganglia T2 hyperintensity can be remembered using the mnemonic LINT

lymphoma
ischaemia
- hypoxia
- venous infarction (internal cerebral vein thrombosis)
neurodegenerative / metabolic
- Wilson disease
- Huntington disease : especially caudate heads
- methylmalonic acidaemia
- mitochondrial diseases : e.g. Leigh disease
- extrapontine myelinolysis
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
toxins
- carbon monoxide neurotoxicity
- cyanide
- hypoglycaemia
- methanol

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Case 1 : haemorrhagic infarction

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Case 2 : Wilson disease

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Case 3 : extra pontine myelinolysis

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