Procalcitonin might help in discrimination between meningeal neuro-Behçet disease and bacterial meningitis

Neurology. 2009 Feb 24;72(8):762-3. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000343046.88848.76.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Behcet Syndrome / blood
  • Behcet Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Calcitonin / blood*
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide
  • Central Nervous System Diseases / blood
  • Central Nervous System Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meninges*
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / blood
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / diagnosis*
  • Protein Precursors / blood*

Substances

  • CALCA protein, human
  • Protein Precursors
  • Calcitonin
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide