The mildest form of acute necrotizing encephalopathy associated with influenza A.
We experienced the mildest form of acute necrotizing encephalopathy associated with influenza A. A previously healthy 13-year-old girl had mildly decreased consciousness and delirious behavior lasting for a week. Diffusion-weighted imaging showed mildly high signal intensities in the bilateral thalami, deep white matter in the centrum semiovale, and frontal lobes. Conventional T (1)- or T (2)-weighted images revealed no abnormalities.
Okumura
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Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. okumura@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Kidokoro
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Mizuguchi
M
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Kurahashi
H
H
Hirabayashi
Y
Y
Morishima
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Watanabe
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K
D000293:Adolescent; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009980:Influenza A virus / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D004684:Leukoencephalitis, Acute Hemorrhagic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology*; D013788:Thalamus / Q000473:pathology