Neuro-Behçet disease mimicking brain tumor.

نویسندگان

  • Koushun Matsuo
  • Kei Yamada
  • Kenji Nakajima
  • Masanori Nakagawa
چکیده

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-up images. The clinical symptoms were also improved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology

دوره 26 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005