Parry-Romberg syndrome: conventional and advanced MRI follow-up in a boy

Neuroradiol J. 2017 Oct;30(5):445-447. doi: 10.1177/1971400916689577. Epub 2017 Mar 1.

Abstract

We studied a 9-year-old boy, affected with the Parry-Romberg syndrome, during a period of 32 months, by means of clinical evaluations and neuroradiological magnetic resonance imaging. Over this time we observed a clinical progression of the cutaneous disease without a simultaneous progression of the neurological alterations. Conventional and advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques showed white matter alterations which proved to be stable during the follow-up.

Keywords: Parry–Romberg syndrome; follow-up; fractional anisotropy; paediatric; spectroscopy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Disease Progression
  • Facial Hemiatrophy / diagnostic imaging*
  • Facial Hemiatrophy / drug therapy
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Male