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Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
injury) • Neurologic ... matter, spinal cord ... disease) Differential ... diagnosis #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
BEE Syndromes - Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye, and ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in conjunction
affecting the brain ... polychondritis • Behcet ... ANCA-associated vasculitides ... BEE #Syndromes #neurology ... #inflammatory #differential
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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- Differential ... : • Behçet Syndrome ... Differential ... Presentation - Systemic Symptoms ... purpura: strong sign
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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Toxoplasmosis AUTOIMMUNE/VASCULITIS ... - Behcet Disease ... syndrome (bulbar symptoms ... Rhombencephalitis #Differential ... Diagnosis #Causes #Neurology
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Vasculitis - Differential ... purpura: Strong sign ... , neurologic, and ... • Progressive symptoms ... • Behcet syndrome
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
- Differential ... and signs below ... - Sarcoidosis, Behcet ... disease - SLE ... disorders #diagnosis #neurology
Neurological Manifestations of Tuberculosis
Spinal Arachnoiditis & Polyradiculopathy:
 • Subacute onset of limb weakness, bladder/bowel dysfunction, muscle
meninges in spinal cord ... lesion Pott's Disease ... Meningitis • Include: vasculitis ... contrast enhancement Brain ... Tuberculosis #diagnosis #differential
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
• Bilateral signs ... and/or symptoms ... - Vasculitis- ... diagnosis #management #neurology ... #differential
Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Pachymeningitis is a rare condition that causes areas of a layer
surrounds the spinal cord ... and brain (dura ... cause different symptoms ... polychondritis • Behçet ... Pachymeningitis #HP #Neurology
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
multiple spinal cord ... fasciculations Common Symptoms ... MRI: Brain, cervical ... conditions listed in differential ... Lateral #Sclerosis #neurology