Brain biopsy to aid diagnosis of neuro-Behçet's disease: Case report and literature review

Central nervous system involvement in Behçet's disease (Neuro-Behçet's disease: NBD) has been reported to present diverse clinical and pathological manifestations. A few cases presenting with neurological symptoms preceding other systemic features are difficult to be diagnosed. Here we sug...

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Autores principales: Yamada, Hiroki, Saito, Kazuyuki, Hokari, Mitsuhiko, Toru, Shuta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5730892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29260026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensci.2017.06.001
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author Yamada, Hiroki
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description Central nervous system involvement in Behçet's disease (Neuro-Behçet's disease: NBD) has been reported to present diverse clinical and pathological manifestations. A few cases presenting with neurological symptoms preceding other systemic features are difficult to be diagnosed. Here we suggest the clinical benefit of brain biopsy with a case of NBD initially presenting neurological symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-57308922017-12-19 Brain biopsy to aid diagnosis of neuro-Behçet's disease: Case report and literature review Yamada, Hiroki Saito, Kazuyuki Hokari, Mitsuhiko Toru, Shuta eNeurologicalSci Case Report Central nervous system involvement in Behçet's disease (Neuro-Behçet's disease: NBD) has been reported to present diverse clinical and pathological manifestations. A few cases presenting with neurological symptoms preceding other systemic features are difficult to be diagnosed. Here we suggest the clinical benefit of brain biopsy with a case of NBD initially presenting neurological symptoms. Elsevier 2017-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5730892/ /pubmed/29260026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensci.2017.06.001 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Brain biopsy to aid diagnosis of neuro-Behçet's disease: Case report and literature review
title Brain biopsy to aid diagnosis of neuro-Behçet's disease: Case report and literature review
title_full Brain biopsy to aid diagnosis of neuro-Behçet's disease: Case report and literature review
title_fullStr Brain biopsy to aid diagnosis of neuro-Behçet's disease: Case report and literature review
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title_short Brain biopsy to aid diagnosis of neuro-Behçet's disease: Case report and literature review
title_sort brain biopsy to aid diagnosis of neuro-behçet's disease: case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5730892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29260026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensci.2017.06.001
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