Neuro-Behçet: differential diagnosis of recurrent meningitis
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Neuro-Behçet: differential diagnosis of recurrent meningitis.
Behçet disease is a systemic inflammatory perivasculitis characterized by recurrent episodes of oral and genital ulcers associated with skin and ocular lesions. Neurological involvement occurs in 5 to 10% of the cases, and isolated meningeal involvement is very uncommon. We report a 21 years old man with a Behçet disease and a history of acute meningeal syndrome in two previous crises and menin...
متن کاملNeuro-neutrophilic disease: neuro-Behçet disease and neuro-Sweet disease.
“Neuro-Sweet disease (NSD)” was proposed as a distinct entity of encephalomeningitis in 1999 (1). Sweet disease has been considered as a multisystem inflammatory disorder characterized by painful erythematous plaques, and has been classified as a dermatologic disease. The plaques respond to systemic corticosteroids, and heal without scarring. It has been disclosed that aseptic neutrophilic infl...
متن کاملNeuro-Behçet disease mimicking brain tumor.
Neuro-Behcet disease is one of the clinical forms of Behcet disease. We report a case of neuro-Behcet disease mimicked a brain tumor. This case was initially considered as a brain tumor from mass lesion with edema at left basal ganglia on radiologic images. The lesion, however, was not neoplasia by pathologic diagnosis. By using steroid therapy, the size had been markedly shrunken on the follow...
متن کامل33 Glaucoma : The Neuro - ophthalmologic Differential Diagnosis
A common challenge in ophthalmology and source of neuroophthalmology consultation is whether to consider an alternative cause for visual loss in a patient with glaucoma. This review will attempt to define the reason for the uncertainties in the diagnosis of glaucoma, review the differential diagnosis from a neuro-ophthalmologic standpoint and provide guidelines for who should be evaluated and w...
متن کاملNeuro-Behçet: report of three clinically distinct cases.
We report three patients who collectively have very representative clinical forms of neuro-Behçet and different neurological findings. The first case, male, 49 years old, presents symptoms similar to multiple sclerosis. The second case, male 15 years old, presents with parenchymatous compromise and an association with antiphospholipid antibody. And the third case, female 25 years old, presents ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista médica de Chile
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0034-9887
DOI: 10.4067/s0034-98872013000100016