Post-operative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome: time to move beyond structural MRI.

Sebastian M ToescuSamantha HettigeKim PhippsR J Paul SmithVerity HaffendenChris ClarkRichard HaywardKshitij MankadKristian Aquilina

Published in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2018)

The development of pCMS could not be linked to any observable changes on pre-operative structural MRI scans. Post-operative T2-weighted signal change in the SCPs and dentate nuclei underlines the role of cerebellar efferent injury in pCMS. Further research using advanced quantitative MRI sequences is warranted given the inability of conventional pre-surgical MRI to predict pCMS.

Keyphrases

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