Neuro Behcet Disease Mistakenly Diagnosed as a Brain Abscess Because of a Ring Contrast Enhanced Lesion on Brain MRI
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Accession number;05A0587720
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| Title;Neuro Behcet Disease Mistakenly Diagnosed as a Brain Abscess Because of a Ring Contrast Enhanced Lesion on Brain MRI |
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TAKASHIMA HIDETOSHI
(Nagasaki Kita Hospital, Nagasaki, Jpn)
NAKAO YOKO
(Nagasaki Kita Hospital, Nagasaki, Jpn)
IWANAGA KEISUKE
(Nagasaki Kita Hospital, Nagasaki, Jpn)
TOMITA ITSURO
(Nagasaki Kita Hospital, Nagasaki, Jpn)
SATOH AKIRA
(Nagasaki Kita Hospital, Nagasaki, Jpn)
SETO MAKIKO
(Nagasaki Kita Hospital, Nagasaki, Jpn)
TSUJIHATA MITSUHIRO
(Nagasaki Kita Hospital, Nagasaki, Jpn)
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Journal Title;Acta Med Nagasaki Ensia
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Journal Code:X0952A
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ISSN:0001-6055
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VOL.50;NO.1;PAGE.35-38(2005)
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| Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.2, REF.16 |
| Pub. Country;Japan |
| Language;English |
| Abstract;A 27-year-old man was hospitalized for an evaluation of a high fever and left hemiparesis. Gadolinium-enhanced MRI disclosed a lesion with ring enhanced areas with marked edema extending from the right basal ganglia and thalamus to the midbrain that appeared to be a brain abscess. The lesion resolved almost completely during the 2 month period after admission. Three weeks after discharge the patient again developed a high fever, and an MRI examination disclosed a large new lesion involving the left thalamus, brainstem and upper pons. No ring enhancement was detected by gadolinium-enhanced MRI, and the new lesion again spontaneously resolved almost completely, but during the second admission the patient also developed oral aphthae and skin eruptions suggesting Behcet's disease. This is a rare case suggesting that the lesions occurring in association with neuro-Behcet disease may resolve spontaneously. (author abst.) |
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