title: Mild influenza-associated encephalopathy/encephalitis with a reversible splenial lesion in a Caucasian child with additional cerebellar features.
abstract: Mild influenza-associated encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion is a rare entity recently reported almost exclusively in Asiatic individuals. Hallmarks of this clinical-radiological syndrome include severe encephalopathy at onset, prompt and complete recovery, minimal to absent pleocytosis and rapidly reversible involvement of the splenium of the corpus callosum. We report herein a young Caucasian child who in addition had cerebellar involvement and presented a transient mutism during the recovery phase.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Neurology, Geneva Children's Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland. joel.fluss@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fluss
authors.forename: Solène
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ferey
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Menache-Starobinski
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Delavelle
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Van Bogaert
authors.forename: Maria Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Vargas
mesh_terms: D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology; D018792:Encephalitis, Viral / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009980:Influenza A virus / Q000502:physiology*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D044465:White People