title: Neuro-Behçet's disease: factors hampering proper diagnosis.
abstract: We reviewed the clinical course of nine patients with neuro-Behçet's disease to assess difficulties in making this diagnosis. Factors delaying proper diagnosis included lack of accurate history and physical examination, lack of recognition of an underlying systemic syndrome and its relationship to the neurologic symptoms, presence of intermittently normal CSF studies, and use of noncontrasted neuroimaging techniques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Devlin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tien
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Morgenlander
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male