title: The earliest manifestation of focal encephalitis on diffusion-weighted MRI.
abstract: We report the case of an adult patient with a focus of meningioencephalitis in whom the earliest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) manifestation was hyperintense signal on diffusion-weighted (DW) sequence only. To our knowledge, this is the first adult encephalitis case to be reported with the MRI diffusion-weighted pulse sequence being the only positive MRI finding. A brief review of the pertinent literature is included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, SUNY Brooklyn Health Science Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA.
authors.forename: Rabin Katan
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Nouranifar
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Jaya
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nath
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed