<Originals>Magnetic resonance imaging in neuro-Behcet's disease

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We studied central nervous system lesions in patients with neuro-Behcet's disease using brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI revealed abnormal findings in seven of the eight (87.5%) patients. MRI studies demonstrated extensive regions with a high intensity signal in the brainstem and/or basal ganglia on the T2-weighted images obtained during the acute stage of disease in three patients. One of these patients demonstrated a strongly gadolinium-enhanced round lesion in the lower pons. In four of the other five patients with chronic disease, brainstem atrophy was observed on the T1-weighted images. Atrophic changes were more severe in the brainstem than in the cerebellum. Our findings showed that MRI is useful in detecting the presence and assessing the degree of neurologic involvement in patients with neuro-Behcet's disease.
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