Japanese encephalitis with movement disorder and atypical magnetic resonance imaging.
With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, brain lesions associated with Japanese encephalitis are increasingly being recognized and correlated with movement disorder. Bilateral haemorrhagic thalamic infarcts on MRI, suggested as a characteristic finding in Japanese encephalitis were conspicuous by their absence in this case report of Japanese encephalitis.
Department of Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt SK Hospital, New Delhi.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D004672:Encephalitis, Japanese / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013786:Thalamic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis