Early Diagnosis of Recurrent Optic Neuritis Using Contrast-Enhanced T2 Fluid-attenuated Inversion Recovery Imaging: a Case Report

Li Lihui; Huang Houbin; Chen Zhiye

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Early Diagnosis of Recurrent Optic Neuritis Using Contrast-Enhanced T2 Fluid-attenuated Inversion Recovery Imaging: a Case Report

Chinese Medical Sciences Journal Vol. 33, Issue 2, Pages: 130-134(2018)

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- Early Diagnosis of Recurrent Optic Neuritis Using Contrast-Enhanced T2 Fluid-attenuated Inversion Recovery Imaging: a Case Report
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  1 Department of Radiology,Hainan Branch of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Sanya, Hainan 572013, China
  2 Department of Ophthalmology,Hainan Branch of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Sanya, Hainan 572013, China
  3 Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital,Beijing, 100853, China
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- DOI：10.24920/31809
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- Received：18 March 2018，
  
  Published Online：20 June 2018，
  
  Published：20 June 2018
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Li Lihui, Huang Houbin, Chen Zhiye. Early Diagnosis of Recurrent Optic Neuritis Using Contrast-Enhanced T2 Fluid-attenuated Inversion Recovery Imaging: a Case Report[J]. Chinese medical sciences journal, 2018, 33(2): 130-134.
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Li Lihui, Huang Houbin, Chen Zhiye. Early Diagnosis of Recurrent Optic Neuritis Using Contrast-Enhanced T2 Fluid-attenuated Inversion Recovery Imaging: a Case Report[J]. Chinese medical sciences journal, 2018, 33(2): 130-134. DOI： 10.24920/31809.

摘要

复发性视神经炎通常采用临床诊断

有时具有一定的挑战性。传统的磁共振对比增强T1加权成像（CE-T1WI）常常不能显示受累视神经有无强化

从而难以判断是否存在视神经炎复发。本文报道了一例采用对比增强T2液体衰减翻转恢复成像（CE-T2FLAIR）早期诊断复发性视神经炎的中年女性病例。受累视神经在CE-T2FLAIR上显著强化

而在CE-T1WI上无明显强化。本病例提示

对复发性视神经炎

CE-T2FLAIR可能成为一种特异性的影像诊断技术。

Abstract

The diagnosis of the recurrent optic neuritis is commonly established clinically

and sometimes it could be challenging because the involved optic nerve does not always show significant enhancement on conventional contrast enhanced-T1 weighted imaging (CE-T1WI). In this paper

we reported a middle-aged female with early diagnosis of recurrent optic neuritis using contrast-enhanced T2 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery imaging (CE-T2FLAIR). The involved optic nerve presented evident enhancement on CE-T2FLAIR and no enhancement on CE-T1WI. This case suggested that the CE-T2FLAIR may be a useful diagnostic tool specifically for the recurrent optic neuritis in clinical practice.

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