Isolated benign cerebral vasculitis.
A young woman south medical care for headache, nausea, and evolving focal neurologic signs. The CSF was normal; cerebral angiography showed segmental narrowing and irregularity of intraparenchymal arterioles. Isolated cerebral vasculitis was the clinical diagnosis made by careful exclusion; the illness reponded well to steroids and there was later angiographic evidence of healing.
D000328:Adult; D001167:Arteritis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use
D011239:Prednisolone