Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences
Online ISSN : 1880-2206
Print ISSN : 1347-3182
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Hemosiderin Detection inside the Mammillary Bodies Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping on Patients with Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
Yuri NakamuraYasutaka FushimiTakuya HinodaSatoshi NakajimaAkihiko SakataSachi OkuchiSayo OtaniHiroshi TagawaYang WangSatoshi IkedaHirotsugu KawashimaMaiko T UemuraYuji Nakamoto
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Article ID: ici.2022-0109

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Hemorrhage inside the mammillary bodies (MMBs) is known to be one of the findings of Wernicke encephalopathy. Brain MRI of two patients with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) demonstrated high susceptibility values representing hemosiderin deposition in MMBs by using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM). QSM provided additional information of susceptibility values to susceptibility-weighted imaging in diagnosis of WKS.

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