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Central nervous system borreliosis mimicking a pontine tumour.

Latsch K, Tappe D, Warmuth-Metz M, Hebestreit H

Children's Hospital, and Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, D-97080 Würzburg, Germany. Latsch_K@kinderklinik.uni-wuerzburg.de

In childhood, facial nerve palsy and headache are typical symptoms of second and third stage neuroborreliosis. While focal demyelination is occasionally observed on MRI scans, the appearance of a tumorous lesion is extremely rare. The case of a 10-year-old girl with neuroborreliosis mimicking a space-occupying lesion in the brainstem, without any previously recognized manifestations of borreliosis, is reported.

Published 10 October 2006 in J Med Microbiol, 55: 1597-9.
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