Central nervous system borreliosis mimicking a pontine tumour.
In childhood, facial nerve palsy and headache are typical symptoms of second and third stage neuroborreliosis. While focal demyelination is occasionally observed on MRI scans, the appearance of a tumorous lesion is extremely rare. The case of a 10-year-old girl with neuroborreliosis mimicking a space-occupying lesion in the brainstem, without any previously recognized manifestations of borreliosis, is reported.
Latsch
Kirsten
K
Tappe
Dennis
D
Warmuth-Metz
Monika
M
Hebestreit
Helge
H
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood; D025065:Borrelia burgdorferi / Q000254:growth & development*; D020295:Brain Stem Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D002439:Cefotaxime / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020852:Lyme Neuroborreliosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D002439:Cefotaxime