Tramontini Pedro L, Finkelsztejn Alessandro, Duarte Juliana Á, Santos Guilherme T, Roesler Rafael, Isolan Gustavo R
Neurosurgery Department, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Neurology Department, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Surg Neurol Int. 2017 Jun 5;8:97. doi: 10.4103/sni.sni_3_17. eCollection 2017.
Behçet's disease (BD) is an inflammatory multisystem disease with unknown etiology, and consists of a TRIAD comprising recurrent oral ulcers, genital ulcers, and uveitis. In some cases, the disease affects the central nervous system, called Neuro-Behçet Disease (NBD). Few cases of NBD simulating a brain tumor have been previously reported.
Here, we describe the case of a 46-year-old male patient with a previous diagnosis of brain tumor who was later diagnosed for BD.
This case highlights the importance of differential diagnosis of lesions with tumoral features. Checking for the possibility of NBD may help avoiding biopsy in these types of cases.
白塞病（BD）是一种病因不明的炎症性多系统疾病，由复发性口腔溃疡、生殖器溃疡和葡萄膜炎组成的三联征构成。在某些情况下，该疾病会影响中枢神经系统，称为神经白塞病（NBD）。此前鲜有NBD模拟脑肿瘤的病例报道。
在此，我们描述一例先前诊断为脑肿瘤，后来被诊断为BD的46岁男性患者的病例。
该病例突出了对具有肿瘤特征的病变进行鉴别诊断的重要性。检查NBD的可能性可能有助于避免在这类病例中进行活检。
