Behcet's disease patients with multiple sclerosis-like features: discriminative value of Barkhof criteria

AKMAN-DEMIR G., Mutlu M. O., KIYAT-ARAMER A., Shugaiv E., Kurtuncu M., Tugal-Tutkun I., ...Daha Fazla

CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY, cilt.33, sa.6, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 33 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Dergi Adı: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Behcet's disease, MRI, white matter lesions, multiple sclerosis, NEUROLOGICAL INVOLVEMENT, CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS, MRI FINDINGS
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Objective. Behcet's disease (BD) is a systemic auto-inflammatory disorder of unknown cause, which may affect the central nervous system in around 5% of the patients [neuro-BD (NBD)], usually causing large lesions encompassing brainstem, diencephalon and basal ganglia regions. Occasionally NBD patients present with white matter lesions necessitating differential diagnosis from multiple sclerosis (MS). In this study, the efficacy of Barkhof criteria was tested in diagnostic differentiation of NBD and MS.