Porcello Marrone Luiz Carlos, Marrone Bianca Fontana, Pascoal Tharick Ali, Schilling Lucas Porcello, Soder Ricardo Bernardi, Ferreira Sheila Schuch, Gadonski Giovani, da Costa Jaderson Costa
Hospital São Lucas/Instituto do Cérebro (Inscer), Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Avenida Ipiranga 6690, 90610-000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Case Rep Oncol Med. 2013;2013:306983. doi: 10.1155/2013/306983. Epub 2013 Feb 27.
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinicoradiologic entity characterized by headaches, altered mental status, seizures, visual loss, and characteristic imaging pattern in brain MRI. The cause of PRES is not yet understood. We report a case of a 27-year-old woman that developed PRES after the use of FOLFOX 5 (oxaliplatin/5-Fluoracil/Leucovorin) chemotherapy for a colorectal cancer.
后部可逆性脑病综合征(PRES)是一种临床放射学疾病,其特征为头痛、精神状态改变、癫痫发作、视力丧失以及脑部磁共振成像(MRI)的特征性影像学表现。PRES的病因尚不清楚。我们报告一例27岁女性病例,该患者在使用FOLFOX 5(奥沙利铂/5-氟尿嘧啶/亚叶酸钙)化疗治疗结直肠癌后发生了PRES。