Multiple ring enhancing lesions in a patient with unilateral limb jerking

• Authors: Subhankar Chakraborty
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Multiple ring enhancing lesions (MREL) in the brain can be caused by a variety of diseases including infections, inflammatory and neoplastic conditions. We present the case of a patient with new onset unilateral jerking movement of the arm who was found to have sixteen ring enhancing lesions (RELs) in the brain on MRI. Further workup revealed a primary small cell lung cancer. The differential diagnosis of multiple ring enhancing lesions is discussed. The astute clinician should be aware of this rare but important radiological finding.

Keywords

EN

Metastasis; Small cell lung cancer; Ring; Necrosis

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 391-393

Dates

published

1 - 6 - 2014

online

8 - 7 - 2014

Contributors

author

Subhankar Chakraborty

• Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-013-0284-0