MRI IN NEURO-BEHCETS DISEASE

Our purpose was to characterise specific MRI findings and to determine their value in neuro-Behcet's disease. We examined 17 patients (14 me n, 3 women) with neuro-Behcet's disease using T1- and T2-weighted spin -echo images and contrast-enhanced images at 0.5 T. There were 13 pati ents (76.5%) who had single or multiple lesions. Most of these were in the basal ganglia, brain stem or deep white matter region, giving hig h signal on T2- weighted images and isointense or low signal on T1-wei ghted images. In 3 cases (17.6%) there was linear high signal along th e posterior limb of the internal capsule on T2-weighted images. This w as considered as a potential differentiating feature of neuro-Behcet's disease. Contrast-enhancement was seen in 17 lesions in 7 patients.