@article{mbs:/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.46586-0, author = "Latsch, Kirsten and Tappe, Dennis and Warmuth-Metz, Monika and Hebestreit, Helge", title = "Central nervous system borreliosis mimicking a pontine tumour", journal= "Journal of Medical Microbiology", year = "2006", volume = "55", number = "11", pages = "1597-1599", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.46586-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.46586-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1473-5644", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "BMP, Borrelia membrane protein", keywords = "CNS, central nervous system", keywords = "CSF, cerebrospinal fluid", keywords = "IBBA, intrathecal B. burgdorferi antibody", abstract = "In childhood, facial nerve palsy and headache are typical symptoms of second and third stage neuroborreliosis. While focal demyelination is occasionally observed on MRI scans, the appearance of a tumorous lesion is extremely rare. The case of a 10-year-old girl with neuroborreliosis mimicking a space-occupying lesion in the brainstem, without any previously recognized manifestations of borreliosis, is reported.", }