Spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging in autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia

@article{Hedera2005SpinalCM,
  title={Spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging in autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia},
  author={Peter Hedera and Odd Petter Eldevik and Pavel V Maly and Shirley R Rainier and John K. Fink},
  journal={Neuroradiology},
  year={2005},
  volume={47},
  pages={730-734}
}
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a genetically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressive lower extremity weakness and spasticity. HSP pathology involves axonal degeneration that is most pronounced in the terminal segments of the longest descending (pyramidal) and ascending (dorsal columns) tracts. In this study, we compared spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 13 HSP patients with four different types of autosomal dominant hereditary… 
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Hereditary spastic paraplegia is a syndrome designation describing inherited disorders in which lower extremity weakness and spasticity are the predominant symptoms and emerging concepts of this large group of clinically similar disorders are highlighted.
Neuroimaging in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias: Current Use and Future Perspectives
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The current use and future perspectives of MRI in the context of HSP are discussed, with quantitative spinal cord morphometry and diffusion tensor imaging look promising tools to uncover the pathophysiology and to track progression of these diseases.
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In children with spastic paraplegia, HSP must be considered whenever similar pathologies, mainly diplegic cerebral palsy, are ruled out.
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Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia: Beyond Clinical Phenotypes toward a Unified Pattern of Central Nervous System Damage.
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The detection of a distributed pattern of central nervous system damage in patients with pure and complicated HSP suggests that the "primary" corticospinal tract involvement known to occur in these patients may be associated with a neurodegenerative process, which spreads out to extramotor regions, likely via anatomic connections.
Hereditary spastic paraplegia
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