Erschienen in:
22.11.2018 | Neuro-Images
Central-variant posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a young patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
verfasst von:
Smaranda Maier, Copotoiu Monica, Andreea Romaniuc, Sebastian Andone, Rodica Bălaşa
Erschienen in:
Acta Neurologica Belgica
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Ausgabe 2/2019
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Excerpt
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinicoradiologic entity that usually manifests with headache, blindness, convulsions and altered mental status [
1,
2]. The typical imaging features of PRES are the presence of vasogenic oedema in the parieto-occipital lobes and the subcortical white matter. In 10–20% of cases, an atypical radiological presentation of PRES involving the basal ganglia and brainstem, called central-variant PRES, has been described, in which classical parieto-occipital abnormalities were absent [
1,
2]. …