A Neuro-Behcet's Case Operated with the Intracranial Mass Misdiagnosis.
10.3340/jkns.2012.52.5.488
- Author:
Osman Serhat TOKGOZ
1
;
Zehra AKPINAR
;
Figen GUNEY
;
Abdullah SEYITHANOGLU
Author Information
1. Department of Neurology, Meram Medical Faculty, Konya University, Konya, Turkey. serhatnoroloji@yahoo.com.tr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Neuro-Behcet;
Intracranial mass;
Multiple skleroz;
Behcet's disease
- MeSH:
Demyelinating Diseases;
Diagnosis, Differential;
Diagnostic Errors;
Epilepsy;
Headache;
Humans;
Light;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Male;
Neurologic Manifestations;
Paresis;
Ulcer
- From:Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
2012;52(5):488-490
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Behcet's disease (BD) is an inflammatory systemic disorder with oral and genital ulcers, as well as ophthalmologic and cutaneous symptoms. Neurological manifestations in BD represent between 2.2% to 50% of the cases. The 25-year-old male patient, diagnosed with BD three years earlier, was admitted to our clinic with complaints of recurrent headaches. Tumor-like-parenchimal involvement was detected on a cranial magnetic resonance imaging. The lesion was removed surgically and then he suffered from right hemiparesis and epilepsy. Pathological examination of the lesion noted a demyelinating non-tumoural etiology. A neuro-Behget's case with parenchymal involvement has been examined in light of the literature, in terms of a tumor and a demyelinating disease differential diagnosis.
