Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları

Authors : Uğur Işik, Şebnem Kuter

Pages : 97-99

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Publication Date : 2011-06-01

Article Type : Other

Abstract :Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis SSPE is a progressive neurodegenerative disease developing after measles infection. It has a bad prognosis. We present here a child with SSPE with unusual brain MRI findings. A 13 yearold girl presented to our child neurology clinic with seizures and worsening neurological symptoms. She only had right basal ganglia putaminal hyperintensity in her brain MRI. A metabolic disorder was more likely with these MRI findings. However her EEG was suggestive of SSPE. A lumbar puncture was performed and it showed high anti-measles antibodies, which provided the definitive diagnosis. In patients with isolated basal ganglia lesions in their MRI, SSPE should be considered in the differential diagnosis
Keywords : basal ganglia, children, MRI, SSPE