1. The hot cross bun sign in a patient with encephalitis
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Huici Liang, Yiru Zeng, Jianning Mai, Wenlin Wu, Jing Han, Yingyan Gan, and Xiaojing Li
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Diagnosis, Differential ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Atrophy ,Developmental Neuroscience ,medicine ,Humans ,Immunosuppression Therapy ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Brain ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Hyperintensity ,Spinal Cord ,Child, Preschool ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Spinocerebellar ataxia ,Encephalitis ,Neurology (clinical) ,Radiology ,business ,T2 weighted ,Hot cross bun sign ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Sign (mathematics) - Abstract
The ‘hot cross’ bun (HCB) sign refers to pontine cruciform hyperintensity on T2 weighted magnetic resonance image (MRI) which is frequently seen in multiple system atrophy and spinocerebellar ataxia types 2 and 3. We describe a 3 years old boy of encephalitis and his MRI image showed HCB sign in the pontine. After immunosuppressive treatment and followed up 14 months, he got a good outcome and the HCB sign narrowed nearly disappeared.
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- 2018
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