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- Sundgren, P C, et al.
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Abnormalities on brain MR images during the course of familial haemophagocytic lymphohistocytosis in a child. A case report
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Ingår i: Acta Radiologica. - 0284-1851. ; 41:1, s. 6-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: To describe and report the neuroradiological findings and clinical features in a patient with familial haemophagocytic lymphohistocytosis (FHL), a rare hereditary immune dysregulation in early childhood characterised by multisystem involvement, including in approximately 30% of cases also the central nervous system (CNS).MATERIAL AND METHODS: Serial brain MR examinations were carried out in a 4.5-year-old boy with FHL, finally complicated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-driven posttransplantation lymphoma.RESULTS: Multiple brain MR examinations before and after contrast enhancement showed discrete perivascular non-enhancing areas of high signal intensity on T2 images, and later also an enhancing lesion in the right caudate nucleus.CONCLUSION: FHL should be included in the differential diagnosis of patchy white matter abnormalities in young patients. EBV-driven post-transplantation lymphoma, which may present as meningial and/or parenchymal CNS infiltration, is a differential diagnostic problem.
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