Localized necrotizing arteritis of the central nervous system.
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.
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Chulalongkorn Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
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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