Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

Restricted diffusion in Canavan disease.

[canavan disease]

Canavan disease is a megalencephalic leukodystrophy due to deficiency of the enzyme aspartoacylase. Proton MR spectroscopy finding of elevated N-acetyl-L: -aspartate is considered diagnostic of Canavan disease.We report a case of Canavan disease, which showed restricted diffusion in diffusion-weighted imaging and discuss the cause of it.

Diseases presenting "leukodystrophy" symptom

  • achondroplasia
  • adrenomyeloneuropathy
  • alexander disease
  • cadasil
  • canavan disease
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • classical phenylketonuria
  • coats disease
  • fabry disease
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • krabbe disease
  • neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy
  • phenylketonuria
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
  • wiskott-aldrich syndrome
  • x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
  • zellweger syndrome

This symptom has already been validated