Research Article
Mimicking multiple sclerosis - Ghost tumor that comes and goes in different parts of the brain without any treatment
Long Ching*, Ming Him Yuen, Tak Lap Poon, Fung Ching Cheung, Shun Hin Ting and Wing Chi Fong
Published: 07/09/2019 | Volume 3 - Issue 1 | Pages: 087-090
Summary
Lesions that spontaneously come and go in central nervous system without any treatment at different time points and at different locations (CNS) usually lead ones to think of the possibilities of multiple sclerosis. However, sometimes there are exceptions. Surgical biopsy remains an important tool for defi nitive diagnosis in difficult cases. We report a case of intracranial diffuse large B cell lymphoma that spontaneously disappeared without any treatment and then reappeared at different time points and different locations.
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