Neuro-Behçet: MR study of a group of patients

• Author(s): Ramos, C. ; Sá, G. ; Tedim Cruz, V. ; Lopes, A. ; Xavier, J. ; Cruz, R.
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/432
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António (ULSSA)
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: Portuguese
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico da Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António

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Acta Med Port. 2006 Nov-Dec;19(6):494-8. Epub 2007 May 14. [Neuro-Behçet: MR study of a group of patients] [Article in Portuguese] Ramos C, Sá G, Tedim Cruz V, Lopes A, Xavier J, Cruz R. Serviço de Neurorradiologia, Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto, Portugal. Abstract 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. PMID: 17583610 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Free Article