Atypical Cogan's syndrome mimicking encephalitis.
Cogan's syndrome is a rare autoimmune multisystem disease. The main clinical features of typical Cogan's syndrome are vestibuloauditory dysfunction and interstitial keratitis. The authors present a case of atypical Cogan's syndrome with headache, fever, deafness, trigeminal neuralgia and electroencephalographic abnormality which mimicked viral encephalitis.
Department of Neuroinfections and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases Dr. Fran Mihaljevic, Zagreb, Croatia. lepurix@inet.hr
Dragan
D
Lepur
Zoran
Z
Vranjican
Josip
J
Himbele
Bruno
B
Barsić
Igor
I
Klinar
D000328:Adult; D003231:Conjunctivitis / Q000209:etiology; D003638:Deafness / Q000209:etiology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D018792:Encephalitis, Viral / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013577:Syndrome; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology