title: Isolated involvement of substantia nigra in Japanese encephalitis.
abstract: A 16-year-old boy presented with febrile encephalopathy with meningeal signs, abnormal eye movements and extrapyramidal features. Clinical impression was meningo-encephalitis due to infective aetiology. He was diagnosed as a case of Japanese encephalitis. MRI brain revealed bilateral, symmetrical hyperintensities of substantia nigra. This neuro-imaging finding is very rarely reported in Japanese encephalitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna 800014.
authors.forename: Ashok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004672:Encephalitis, Japanese / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013378:Substantia Nigra / Q000473:pathology*