1. A case of Wegener’s granulomatosis with intracranial involvement
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Jun Akaike, Rieko Murakami, Kohzoh Imai, Yusuke Makiguchi, Takako Somekawa, Hiroyuki Okuda, Tamaki Abe, Yumiko Kawahito, Tetsuya Tokuno, Hiroki Takahashi, Shuji Sato, and Takahiro Matsunaga
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Wegener s ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,Immunosuppression ,medicine.disease ,Rheumatology ,Lesion ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,Effective treatment ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Brain abscess ,Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody - Abstract
We report a case of Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG) associated with intracranial involvement and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings. A 44-year-old woman was diagnosed as having WG with involvement of an ear, lungs and kidneys. A brain computed tomography scan showed a space-occupying lesion with a ring-like enhancement in the left temporal lobe. Findings on a brain MRI, different from those characteristic of a brain abscess, supported an intracerebral granulomatous inflammation due to WG. Immunosuppression, which included corticosteroids, was an effective treatment.
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- 1999
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