Rare case of acute dengue encephalitis with correlated MRI findings.
Dengue encephalitis is extremely rare, with most patients showing no significant abnormality on neuroimaging (CT/MRI). We report one of the very few documented cases of dengue encephalitis, with abnormal signal intensities on all major sequences on brain MRI.
Department of Radio-Diagnosis, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
Rishi Philip
RP
Mathew
Ram Shenoy
RS
Basti
Pavan
P
Hegde
Jaidev M
JM
Devdas
Habeeb Ullah
HU
Khan
Mario Joseph
MJ
Bukelo
D000208:Acute Disease; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D003715:Dengue / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018792:Encephalitis, Viral / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D035583:Rare Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D013223:Statistics as Topic
MRI; dengue; encephalitis