Cat-scratch disease is a bacterial infection caused by Bartonella Henselae which affects lymph nodes that drain the sites of inoculation. Axillary, cervical and inguinal are most common regions being involved. The can be considered as an FDG-avid disease, given granulomatous nature infection. We herein report F18 FDG PET/CT findings 49-year-old woman, who has abdominal lymphadenopathy revealed ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MR imaging characteristics of optic neuropathy caused by cat scratch disease have not yet been described; this lack of information may result in incorrect diagnosis and may contribute to initiation of inappropriate therapy. Our study was based on the hypothesis that cat scratch disease-related optic neuropathy has distinct MR imaging features compared with those of other ...

Status epilepticus from cat-scratch encephalopathy is often recalcitrant to usual therapies, causing treatment to focus on critical care management of the patient that may require aggressive interventions, such as continuous pentobarbital administration. We describe two children whose initial clinical presentation of cat-scratch disease was status epilepticus with normal cerebrospinal fluid stu...

Before 1983 physicians diagnosed cat-scratch disease by its clinical manifestations and a positive Hanger-Rose skin test. Three out of four criteria, as outlined by Warwick, 1 were required for diagnosis. In 1983 Wear, et al.2 reported that they found gram-negative pleomorphic organisms using the Warthin-Starry stain on lymph nodes from patients with cat-scratch disease. The organism was then i...

Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a bacterial disease caused by Bartonella henselae and it is mainly characterized by self-limiting lymphadenopathy in the draining site of a cat scratch or bite. We report a patient with history of fever, swelling lymph nodes, vasculitic-like skin lesions, and positivity of Bartonella serology initially considered as expression of a disimmune disease.

OBJECTIVE To report a patient with cat-scratch disease and the associated radiological findings. PATIENT A previously health 10-year-old boy presenting with fever and joint pain. RESULTS The presence of multiple abnormal foci in the bone marrow were noted by magnetic resonance imaging. There was no correlation with either radionuclide or conventional radiographic imaging findings. The patie...

Cat-scratch disease is a clinical syndrome that usually presents as a self-limiting illness featuring regional lymphadenopathy, fever, and small skin lesions in association with a cat scratch or bite. It is caused by the Gram-negative bacillus Bartonella henselae, which commonly affects children and young adults. Ocular bartonellosis is the most common atypical manifestation of cat-scratch dise...