title: Localized necrotizing arteritis of the central nervous system.
abstract: We describe a case of necrotizing arteritis of the brain in a 26-year-old man who presented as organic brain syndrome. The lesion has been confused clinically with acute encephalitis. At necropsy, no other abnormalities suggestive of systemic arteritis were found. Such CNS-restricted necrotizing arteritis of medium and small arteries in the absence of granuloma is extremely uncommon.
authors.affiliation: Chulalongkorn Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kasantikul
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kasantikul
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001167:Arteritis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001344:Autopsy; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis