Cerebral perivenous calcification in neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus: a case report.
We present a case of neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus with granular calcification in the basal ganglia and cerebral white matter on CT. Histopathologically, these were identified as perivenous necrotising lesions, with loss of axons and myelin sheaths and prominent dystrophic calcification.
Matsumoto
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Department of Neurology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Japan.
Shintaku
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Suzuki
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Kato
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D001480:Basal Ganglia Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed