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Brain abnormalities of a patient. (a) MRI showing hyperintense lesions of thalami. (b) Same patient; MRI showing hyperintense lesions of dentate nuclei. (c) Same patient; MRI showing lesions of the posterior white matter in the brainstem pons and in the periaqueductal gray matter of the midbrain.
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It showed several abnormalities as follows: hyperintense lesions of thalami (Figure 1a), dentate nuclei (Figure 1b), posterior white matter in the brainstem pons, and periaqueductal gray matter of the midbrain (Figure 1c) on fluid-attenuation inversion recovery (FLAIR) and diffusion weighted-sequences.
The patient used the old fire extinguisher to unclog his sink, containing methyl bromide.
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At day 7, the son of the patient brought us the answer: an old empty extinguisher (Figure 2).
Evolution of the methyl bromide plasma levels.
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Four weeks later, methyl bromide was still positive in the patient's blood (Figure 3).