MRI of the Brain

[DeliciousMagic]

Hi, my mother recently went in for an MRI and was never explained the results...the hospital just gave her the MRI disc which had all her pictures on it and then a letter which is written very technically. I've done a bit of research myself but would please like someone to interpret the conclusion portion of the letter for me. It reads and I quote "1) No acute intracranial abnormalities. 2) Extensive frontal and periatrial white matter signal changes are nonspecific but are thought to most likely represent areas of chronic small vessel ischemia. If the patient clinically exhibits symptoms of another white matter disease process such as multiple sclerosis, the patient could return for contrast enhanced images to evaluate for acute or active disease" Basically what I'm looking for is the bottom line, what's wrong? What kind of treatments are involved? Or simply what does all of that mean? Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you so much.

[Pinecone1031]

What does evidence of acute intracranial abnormalities mean?

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

The MRI basically points towards a small blood vessel disease. The frontal lobe seems to be involved. It the symptoms are also in keeping with the frontal lobe lesions, we can correlate the MRI clinically.

The radiologist has also kept the doors open for Multiple Sclerosis.

The treatments will differ. If it is MS, treatment will have to be started soon.

Regards