title: Subacute necrotizing polioencephalopathy.
abstract: A previously healthy 20-year-old woman died of a progressive cerebral disease that involved the brain stem and the cerebral hemispheres successively. The illness ran its course in 80 days. Postmortem examination showed a multifocal necrotizing encephalopathy that chiefly affected gray matter structures and that was mainly located in the brain stem and cerebral cortex. The cause and pathogenesis remain unknown.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009336:Necrosis; D013577:Syndrome