"Tumor-mimicking" multiple sclerosis.
The spectrum of clinical manifestations of multiple sclerosis (MS) may include rare cases where cerebral lesions simulate brain tumors or abscesses on neuroimaging. We report here on a 43-year-old woman with numerous ring-enhancing cystic lesions in the white matter of cerebral hemispheres, brainstem and cerebellum. The radiological picture was overwhelmingly in favor of a metastatic or infectious etiology, but brain biopsy showed subacute demyelination with central necrosis.
Di Patre
P L
PL
Department of Pathology, Neuropathology Unit, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. dipatre@hotmail.com
Castillo
V
V
Delavelle
J
J
Vuillemoz
S
S
Picard
F
F
Landis
T
T
D000328:Adult; D001369:Axons / Q000473:pathology; D001706:Biopsy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D009186:Myelin Sheath / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed