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- Title
Magnetic resonance imaging patterns of treatment-related toxicity in the pediatric brain: an update and review of the literature.
- Authors
Rossi Espagnet, Maria; Pasquini, Luca; Napolitano, Antonio; Cacchione, Antonella; Mastronuzzi, Angela; Caruso, Roberta; Tomà, Paolo; Longo, Daniela
- Abstract
Treatment-related neurotoxicity is a potentially life-threatening clinical condition that can represent a diagnostic challenge. Differentiating diagnoses between therapy-associated brain injury and recurrent disease can be difficult, and the immediate recognition of neurotoxicity is crucial to providing correct therapeutic management, ensuring damage reversibility. For these purposes, the knowledge of clinical timing and specific treatment protocols is extremely important for interpreting MRI patterns. Neuroradiologic findings are heterogeneous and sometimes overlapping, representing the compounding effect of the different treatments. Moreover, MRI patterns can be acute, subacute or delayed and involve different brain regions, depending on (1) the mechanism of action of the specific medication and (2) which brain regions are selectively vulnerable to specific toxic effects. This review illustrates the most common radiologic appearance of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and medication-associated brain injury in children, with special focus on the application of advanced MRI techniques (diffusion, perfusion and proton spectroscopy) in the diagnosis of the underlying processes leading to brain toxicity.
- Subjects
NEUROTOXICOLOGY; BRAIN injury diagnosis; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; PEDIATRIC diagnostic imaging; NEURORADIOLOGY
- Publication
Pediatric Radiology, 2017, Vol 47, Issue 6, p633
- ISSN
0301-0449
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00247-016-3750-4