Multiple cerebral hematoma and viral encephalitis.
A patient with the clinical diagnosis of brain abcess presented with a CT brain scan showing an intracerebral hematoma. Subsequently bilateral spontaneous hyperdense lesions appeared. Autopsy showed the typical findings of viral encephalitis probably due to herpes simplex. It is stressed that the differential diagnosis of intracerebral hematoma includes viral encephalitis in the proper clinical setting.
D000328:Adult; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006406:Hematoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed