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Cytotoxic Lesions beyond the Corpus Callosum Following Acute Meningoencephalitis and Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infection: A Case Report and Literature Review
Document Type
article
Source
Case Reports in Neurology, Pp 1-1 (2023)
Subject
cytotoxic lesions of the corpus callosum
meningoencephalitis
mycoplasma pneumoniae
splenial lesion
immunotherapy
Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
RC346-429
Language
English
ISSN
1662-680X
Abstract
Cytotoxic lesions of the corpus callosum (CLOCCs) are secondary lesions associated with a variety of clinical causes. The presence of a small and reversible lesion in the splenium of corpus callosum with restricted diffusion on cranial magnetic resonance imaging is the defining feature. The clinical-radiological manifestations have been documented as mild and reversible. Severer presentations were scarcely reported. In this report, we described a 25-year-old man with preceding fever, worsening somnolence, and convulsions. He was diagnosed with acute meningoencephalitis and Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection after workups. After medical treatments, he had neurological deterioration and progressing CLOCCs from a small oval lesion in the center of splenium extending to the whole corpus callosum and bilaterally adjacent white matter. The patient received intravenous methylprednisolone and immunoglobulin successively, and his neurological conditions improved. The CLOCCs, not always mild and reversible, could present with severe clinicoradiological features.