Clinical management issues in vasculitis. Angiographically defined angiitis of the central nervous system: Diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas

L.H. Calabrese

Clinical Immunology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. 

ABSTRACT
A case of acute neurologic deficit accompanied by a cerebral angiogram consistent with CNS vasculitis is presented. The differential diagnosis and diagnostic decision process generated in this type of evaluation is illustrated.

Key words
Vasculitic, CNS angiitis, CNS vasculitis.

Leonard H. Calabrese, DO, Vice Chairman Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, RJ Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. 
E-mail: calabrl@ccf.org

Clin Exp Rheumatol 2003; 21: (Suppl. 32): S127-S130.
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