Leopard skin sign (white matter)

Metachromatic
leukodystrophy. T2-weighted MRI shows numerous linear tubular structures with low signal intensity in a radiating (“tigroid”) pattern.

Leopard skin
sign (white matter) • Leopard (photo) - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Metachromatic
leukodystrophy • Metachromatic leukodystrophy - infantile type - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Leukodystrophies
• Metachromatic leukodystrophy - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia

Metachromatic
leukodystrophy • Metachromatic leukodystrophy - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
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:
- metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
- autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix
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