Leopard skin sign (white matter)

Metachromatic
leukodystrophy. T2-weighted MRI shows numerous linear tubular structures with low signal intensity in a radiating (“tigroid”) pattern.
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The leopard skin sign (also known as tigroid pattern or stripe sign) results from dark-spots or stripes (spared perivascular white matter) within bright demyelinated periventricular white matter on T2W images. It is characteristically seen in:

See also

Siehe auch:
Assoziationen und Differentialdiagnosen zu Tigerfellmuster:
Metachromatische
Leukodystrophie
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