Citation

Patankar T, Bichile L, Karnad D, Prasad S, Rathod K. Australas. Radiol. 1999; 43(4): 526-528.

Affiliation

Department of Radiology, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Bombay, India. kemrad@bom2.vsnl.net.in

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10901973

Abstract

Methanol, through its chief metabolite, formate, causes irreversible neurological damage. Methanol intoxication produces classic neuropathological changes and characteristic imaging findings. Computed tomography was performed on four patients who presented with a history of methanol poisoning. Prominent, hypodense lesions in the lentiform nuclei and peripheral white matter, sometimes with haemorrhage, were the characteristic imaging findings in the present patients. It was noted that the severity and extent of necrosis of the lentiform nuclei do not necessarily correlate with the clinical outcome.

Language: en