Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society

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A Neuro-Behçet's Case Operated with the Intracranial Mass Misdiagnosis

  • Tokgoz, Osman Serhat (Department of Neurology, Meram Medical Faculty, Konya University) ;
  • Akpinar, Zehra (Department of Neurology, Meram Medical Faculty, Konya University) ;
  • Guney, Figen (Department of Neurology, Meram Medical Faculty, Konya University) ;
  • Seyithanoglu, Abdullah (Department of Neurology, Meram Medical Faculty, Konya University)
  • Received : 2012.01.26
  • Accepted : 2012.10.31
  • Published : 2012.11.28
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Abstract

Behçet's disease (BD) is an inflammatory systemic disorder with oral and genital ulcers, as well as ophthalmologic and cutaneous symptoms. Neurological manifestations in BD represent between 2.2% to 50% of the cases. The 25-year-old male patient, diagnosed with BD three years earlier, was admitted to our clinic with complaints of recurrent headaches. Tumor-like-parenchimal involvement was detected on a cranial magnetic resonance imaging. The lesion was removed surgically and then he suffered from right hemiparesis and epilepsy. Pathological examination of the lesion noted a demyelinating non-tumoural etiology. A neuro-Beh$\check{g}$et's case with parenchymal involvement has been examined in light of the literature, in terms of a tumor and a demyelinating disease differential diagnosis.

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