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Gliomatosis cerebri mimicking viral encephalitis in a 4-year-old child.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | McCusker, Mark William McDonald, Mary Aoife Looby, Seamus King, Mary |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | A 4-year-old boy presented with an afebrile right-sided focal seizure. MRI of the brain demonstrated an infiltrating fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) hyperintense abnormality in the left frontal, temporal and occipital white matter, involving the temporal lobe cortex, without enhancement, microhaemorrhage or diffusion restriction (figure 1). Figure 1 Axial fluid attenuated inversion recovery (A and B) and coronal T2-weighted (C) MRI obtained at initial presentation demonstrate an extensive, hyperintense abnormality centred on the white matter of the left temporal lobe (asterisk) and extending into the white matter of the left frontal lobe (white arrow) and left parietal lobe (open white arrow). The cortex of the left mesial temporal lobe (black arrow) and left … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1136/bcr-2014-203659 |
| PubMed reference number | 24717581 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 2014 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2014/bcr-2014-203659.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2014-203659 |
| Journal | BMJ case reports |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
