[Neuro-Behçet: MR study of a group of patients].
Behçet's disease is a chronic inflammatory, multisystemic disease of unknown aetiology. Central nervous system involvement occurs in a variable proportion of cases (4 to 49%) and is due to intracranial hypertension secondary to dural sinus thrombosis, inflammatory parenquimal lesions or recurrent meningoencephalitis. We reviewed 12 patients, 7 men and 5 women, aged between 27 to 40 years at the time of diagnosis. Neurological manifestations were secondary to parenquimal lesions in 7 patients, meningoencephalitis in 3 patients (including one with extensive medullary lesion) and dural sinus thrombosis in 2. Magnetic Resonance (MR) findings in Neuro-Behçet are non-specific. Nevertheless, MR has a role in characterizing brain lesions topography, helping in the diagnosis and in the follow-up of these patients.
Ramos
Cristina
C
Serviço de Neurorradiologia, Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto, Portugal.
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Goreti
G
Tedim Cruz
Vítor
V
Lopes
Alexandra
A
Xavier
João
J
Cruz
Romeu
R
D000328:Adult; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D012851:Sinus Thrombosis, Intracranial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods