Rasmussen's Encephalitis: A Report of a Tunisian Pediatric Case and Literature Review

Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a rare progressive inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. It is characterized by unilateral hemispheric atrophy, pharmacoresistant focal seizures, and progressive neurological deficit. The exact etiopathogenesis still remains unknown. Brain imaging...

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Autores principales: Klaa, Hedia, Ben Younes, Thouraya, Benrhouma, Hanene, Nagi, Sonia, Rouissi, Aida, Kraoua, Ichraf, Ben Youssef-Turki, Ilhem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32670646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6810237
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author Klaa, Hedia
Ben Younes, Thouraya
Benrhouma, Hanene
Nagi, Sonia
Rouissi, Aida
Kraoua, Ichraf
Ben Youssef-Turki, Ilhem
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Ben Younes, Thouraya
Benrhouma, Hanene
Nagi, Sonia
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description Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a rare progressive inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. It is characterized by unilateral hemispheric atrophy, pharmacoresistant focal seizures, and progressive neurological deficit. The exact etiopathogenesis still remains unknown. Brain imaging plays an important role in diagnosis and follow-up. Fluctuation of lesions in brain imaging was reported in few cases. Herein, we report an additional pediatric case of Rasmussen encephalitis with fluctuating changes in brain MRI.
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spelling pubmed-73330592020-07-14 Rasmussen's Encephalitis: A Report of a Tunisian Pediatric Case and Literature Review Klaa, Hedia Ben Younes, Thouraya Benrhouma, Hanene Nagi, Sonia Rouissi, Aida Kraoua, Ichraf Ben Youssef-Turki, Ilhem Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a rare progressive inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. It is characterized by unilateral hemispheric atrophy, pharmacoresistant focal seizures, and progressive neurological deficit. The exact etiopathogenesis still remains unknown. Brain imaging plays an important role in diagnosis and follow-up. Fluctuation of lesions in brain imaging was reported in few cases. Herein, we report an additional pediatric case of Rasmussen encephalitis with fluctuating changes in brain MRI. Hindawi 2020-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7333059/ /pubmed/32670646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6810237 Text en Copyright © 2020 Hedia Klaa et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rasmussen's Encephalitis: A Report of a Tunisian Pediatric Case and Literature Review
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