1. Eastern equine encephalitis presenting with a focal brain lesion.
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Morse RP, Bennish ML, and Darras BT
- Subjects
- Brain Damage, Chronic diagnosis, Brain Damage, Chronic rehabilitation, Child, Encephalomyelitis, Equine rehabilitation, Humans, Male, Massachusetts, Neurocognitive Disorders diagnosis, Neurocognitive Disorders rehabilitation, Neurologic Examination, Brain pathology, Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine, Encephalomyelitis, Equine diagnosis, Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Abstract
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus causes a severe meningoencephalitis with high morbidity and mortality. Despite numerous clinical reports of EEE, there are only 11 patients in whom cranial computed tomographic (CT) findings are described. In 6 patients, CT was normal and in 5 patients diffuse edema was present; none had a focal brain lesion. Based on these reports, it has been suggested that focal findings on CT support the diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis rather than EEE. The first patient with serologically-confirmed EEE and a focal lesion demonstrated by cranial CT and magnetic resonance imaging is described; these findings underscore the importance of including EEE in the differential diagnosis of encephalitides that can cause focal brain lesions on neuroimaging.
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- 1992
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