Basal ganglia T2 hyperintensity

Last revised by Mohammad Sattouf on 3 Apr 2024

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Citation:

Gaillard F, Sattouf M, Yap J, et al. Basal ganglia T2 hyperintensity. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 18 Apr 2024) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-969

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-969

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969

Article created:

2 May 2008, Frank Gaillard ◉ ◈

Disclosures:

At the time the article was created Frank Gaillard had no recorded disclosures.

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Last revised:

3 Apr 2024, Mohammad Sattouf

Disclosures:

At the time the article was last revised Mohammad Sattouf had no financial relationships to ineligible companies to disclose.

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Revisions:

18 times, by 9 contributors - see full revision history and disclosures

Systems:

Central Nervous System

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Gamuts

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Synonyms:

Increased T2 signal in the basal ganglia
Basal ganglia T2 hypersignal

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

lymphoma
ischemia
- hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
- venous infarction (internal cerebral vein thrombosis)
neurodegenerative
- autoimmune encephalitis (e.g. anti-D2 dopamine antibody encephalitis)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
metabolic
- extrapontine myelinolysis
- Huntington disease: especially caudate heads
- methylmalonic acidemia
- mitochondrial diseases (e.g. Leigh disease)
- Wilson disease
- hepatic encephalopathy
- uremic encephalopathy
- hypoglycemic encephalopathy
toxins
infections
- flavivirus encephalitis
  - Japanese encephalitis
- rabies encephalitis
others
- focal areas of signal intensity (fasi) in neurofibromatosis type 1

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