Published online Oct 6, 2018. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v6.i11.447
Peer-review started: May 19, 2018
First decision: July 8, 2018
Revised: July 30, 2018
Accepted: August 6, 2018
Article in press: August 6, 2018
Published online: October 6, 2018
In a 19-year-old woman complaining of night-raging nausea, blurred vision, and severe headache ongoing for a week was admitted in our clinic.
The patient underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination at our hospital, which indicated a mass with concentric circles and peripheral vesogenic edema located right lateral to the left lateral ventricle was seen in the posterior part of the corpus callosum.
The patient underwent a fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and there were no pathological findings in favor of malignancy.
MRI and single-voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy were used in this case.
The patient refused the treatment.
Balo’s concentric sclerosis (BCS) was first described by Marburg in 1906, and in 1928, the Hungarian neuropathologist, Joseph Balo, published a report of a student. Cases related to BCS between 1985-2018 were presented in this case report together with clinical findings and results.
BCS is a rare monophasic demyelinating disease known as multiple sclerosis subtype. BCS may rapidly progress to become severe and fatal.
The unexpected finding of spontaneous remission without any treatment was reported by MRI in this case. Clinicians should consider BCS is not always a fatal disease.