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2059256

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-8-8
pubmed:abstractText
A 2-year-old boy suffered aphasia, hypotonia, dystonia, and loss of activity and spontaneous speech during an active stage of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with pericarditis, fever, anemia, and a high antinuclear antibody titer. These neurologic signs slowly improved with corticosteroid treatment but fluctuated over 1 year. The neuroimaging studies revealed irregular mass lesions in the basal ganglia bilaterally mainly involving the globus pallidus. They gradually decreased in size and almost disappeared after 1 year. A stereotactic brain biopsy revealed a slight proliferation of astrocytes. Chorioretinitis was also observed during the clinical course. A chronic inflammatory process involving cerebral vessels was suspected, although angiography did not demonstrate cerebral vasculitis. The possibility of central nervous system lymphoma could not be eliminated. The type of aphasia and the relation to the lesion sites are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0887-8994
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
141-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-5-23
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Basal ganglia mass lesions in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Hokushin General Hospital, Nagano, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports