Leukoencephalopathy

The term Leukoencephalopathy is a broad term for leukodystrophy-like diseases (PMID 17414998). It is applied to all brain white matter diseases, whether their molecular cause is known. It can refer specifically to any of these diseases:


 * Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
 * Toxic leukoencephalopathy
 * Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter
 * Leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids
 * Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome
 * megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts

It can also refer to MLC1 or Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts 1, a human gene related to the disease of the same name.