Pseudotumoral Presentation of Cerebral Amyloid-Beta Angiopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (CAA-RI) is a rare and potentially treatable encephalopathy that usually affects people older than 50 years old and has an acute or subacute clinical presentation characterized by rapidly evolving cognitive decline, focal deficits and seizures. In a small subset of patients the disease can adopt a pseudotumoral form in the neuroimages that represents a very difficult diagnostic challenge.

Methods

Here in we report a patient with a tumour-like presentation of histopathologically confirmed CAA-RI.

Results

We also conducted a search and reviewed the clinical and radiological features of 41 cases of pseudotumoral CAA-RI previously reported in the literature in order to identify those characteristics that should ra

SUBMITTER: Roca CU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8256143 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature