Neuro-Behcet's: a diagnostic challenge

Behcet's disease (BD) is characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers and uveitis. It is also known to affect various organs; however, central nervous system involvement is rare and may cause parenchymal or vascular lesions with distinct clinical syndromes. Various viral encephalitides ar...

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Autores principales: Mohan, Mithun Cherakara, Koya, Jassim Mohhamed, Kandaswamy, Gopinath Vadakkupatty Palaniyandi, Jaleel, Venmadathayil Abdul, Jimnaz, Parammal Ambadi, Manjuhasan, Sreerag, Ravindran, Vinod
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4584512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26421157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv046
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author Mohan, Mithun Cherakara
Koya, Jassim Mohhamed
Kandaswamy, Gopinath Vadakkupatty Palaniyandi
Jaleel, Venmadathayil Abdul
Jimnaz, Parammal Ambadi
Manjuhasan, Sreerag
Ravindran, Vinod
author_facet Mohan, Mithun Cherakara
Koya, Jassim Mohhamed
Kandaswamy, Gopinath Vadakkupatty Palaniyandi
Jaleel, Venmadathayil Abdul
Jimnaz, Parammal Ambadi
Manjuhasan, Sreerag
Ravindran, Vinod
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description Behcet's disease (BD) is characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers and uveitis. It is also known to affect various organs; however, central nervous system involvement is rare and may cause parenchymal or vascular lesions with distinct clinical syndromes. Various viral encephalitides are important differential diagnoses. MRI may aid the correct diagnosis. This case report describes a patient with acute severe neurological involvement due to neuro-BD.
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spelling pubmed-45845122015-09-29 Neuro-Behcet's: a diagnostic challenge Mohan, Mithun Cherakara Koya, Jassim Mohhamed Kandaswamy, Gopinath Vadakkupatty Palaniyandi Jaleel, Venmadathayil Abdul Jimnaz, Parammal Ambadi Manjuhasan, Sreerag Ravindran, Vinod Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports Behcet's disease (BD) is characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers and uveitis. It is also known to affect various organs; however, central nervous system involvement is rare and may cause parenchymal or vascular lesions with distinct clinical syndromes. Various viral encephalitides are important differential diagnoses. MRI may aid the correct diagnosis. This case report describes a patient with acute severe neurological involvement due to neuro-BD. Oxford University Press 2015-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4584512/ /pubmed/26421157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv046 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Manjuhasan, Sreerag
Ravindran, Vinod
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