Research Article

The Clinical Features and Risk Factors of Parenchymal Neuro-Behcet’s Disease

Table 2

Sites of neurological involvement in p-NBD.

Neurological lesions (%)

Brainstem involvement23 (54.8%)
 Isolated brainstem10 (23.8%)
 Brainstem+13 (31.0%)
Hemicerebrum involvement22 (52.4%)
Spinal cord involvement5 (11.9%)
 Cervical cord4 (9.5%)
 Thoracic cord1 (2.4%)
Cerebellum4 (9.5%)
Localization not possible3 (7.1%)
More than two sites13 (31.0%)

These 3 patients showed only neurological clinical symptoms and abnormal CSF examinations, and in all these 3 cases, MRI was normal.