Ipsilateral brain cavernoma under scleroderma plaque: a case report

Scleroderma is a rare disease of unknown etiology, which is characterized by thickening and hardening of skin due to an increased collagen production. A 44-year-old female patient with a scleroderma on the scalp known by our department, also presented an ipsilateral brain lesion since 2015, which wa...

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Autores principales: Gunness, Vimal Raj Nitish, Munoz, David, González-López, Pablo, Alshafai, Nabeel, Mikhalkova, Agdaliya, Spears, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6522175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143318
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.13.15288
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Sumario:Scleroderma is a rare disease of unknown etiology, which is characterized by thickening and hardening of skin due to an increased collagen production. A 44-year-old female patient with a scleroderma on the scalp known by our department, also presented an ipsilateral brain lesion since 2015, which was showing growth without any clinical symptomatology and the patient wanted the lesion to be removed. This atypical lesion underneath the scleroderma shows that diagnosis can be missed without brain imaging and biopsy.

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