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Resolution Shown by Computed Tomography

Oded Gerber, MD; Martin Geller, MD; John Stiller, MD; Wen Yang, MD

Arch Neurol. 1983;40(2):116-118.

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Recently, reports of the roentgenographic features in six cases of central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) have appeared.^1-5 In only one of these cases¹ was there a suggestion of partial resolution on a subsequent computed tomogram (CT) in a patient whose condition was improving clinically. We report the case of a patient with clinical CPM whose diagnosis was confirmed by the now characteristic CT findings^1-5 of a pontine lucency. Our patient recovered completely, but serial CTs did not return to normal until 12 to 18 months after clinical resolution.

REPORT OF A CASE

A 28-year-old man was admitted to the City Hospital Center at Elmhurst (NY) on June 10, 1979, with left-sided abdominal pain and emesis. He had a long history of alcoholism and former addiction to heroin.

At the time of admission blood chemistry values were normal except for a sodium level of 126 mEq/L and high . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Services at Elmhurst (NY) (Drs Gerber and Geller); the Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York (Dr Yang); and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York (Drs Gerber, Geller, Stiller, and Yang).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 18, 1982.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Services, City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, 79-01 Broadway, Elmhurst, NY 11373 (Dr Gerber).

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