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Basal ganglia T2 hyperintensity

Last revised by Rohit Sharma ◉ on 20 Apr 2024

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Gaillard F, Sharma R, Garnham J, et al. Basal ganglia T2 hyperintensity. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 09 Dec 2024) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-969

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

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https://radiopaedia.org/articles/969

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969

Article created:

2 May 2008, Frank Gaillard ◉ ◈

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

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Last revised:

20 Apr 2024, Rohit Sharma ◉

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

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20 times, by 10 contributors - see full revision history and disclosures

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Central Nervous System

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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
ischaemia
- hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
- venous infarction (internal cerebral vein thrombosis)
neurodegenerative
- autoimmune encephalitis (e.g. anti-D2 dopamine receptor encephalitis, anti-CV2 encephalitis) ²
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
metabolic
- extrapontine myelinolysis
- Huntington disease: especially caudate heads
- methylmalonic acidaemia
- mitochondrial diseases (e.g. Leigh disease)
- Wilson disease
- hepatic encephalopathy
- uraemic encephalopathy
- hypoglycaemic encephalopathy
toxins
infections
- flavivirus encephalitis
  - Japanese encephalitis
- rabies encephalitis
others
- focal areas of signal intensity (fasi) in neurofibromatosis type 1

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