Surgery and antibiotics for the treatment of lupus nephritis with cerebral abscesses: A case report

Figure 3 Preoperative and postoperative brain magnetic resonance imaging. A-C: Sequential preoperative enhanced MR-T1WI showing low lesion signals that are slightly higher than cerebrospinal fluid signal, and uniform, intact and round annular enhancement around the lesions. There are also low perilesional edema signals that are slightly higher than the cerebrospinal fluid signal; D-F: Sequential MR-T1WI at 1 mo post-surgery showing absence of the resected lesions in the right frontal lobe and left parietal lobe, and formation of soft lesions. Lesion in the left maxillofacial region on which puncture aspiration was performed was also absent. Non-resected lesions in the left frontal and temporal lobes were reduced in size, and low edema signals can be observed around the lesions in the left temporal lobe; G-I: Sequential MR-T1WI at three months post-surgery showing further reduction in the size of non-resected lesions in the left frontal and temporal lobes compared with those at 1 mo post-surgery. Edema was absorbed and dissipated.