Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy selectively affecting Broca's and Wernicke's areas in an immunocompetent patient: A case report.

Radiol Case Rep

Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Published: March 2023

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare, often fatal, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. The disease almost exclusively presents in immunosuppressed patients, such as those with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a hematopoietic malignancy, or a transplanted organ; it is extremely rare in patients without immunosuppression. We present a case of a 74-year-old female with radiographic and histopathological findings consistent with PML that possibly arose in the setting of Sjögren's-related vasculitis but no immunosuppression.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9870919PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.01.011DOI Listing

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