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Rare case of acute dengue encephalitis with correlated MRI findings
Author(s) -
Mathew Rishi Philip,
Basti Ram Shenoy,
Hegde Pavan,
Devdas Jaidev M,
Khan Habeeb Ullah,
Bukelo Mario Joseph
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1754-9485
pISSN - 1754-9477
DOI - 10.1111/1754-9485.12182
Subject(s) - medicine , dengue fever , encephalitis , magnetic resonance imaging , computed tomography , virology , radiology , pediatrics , pathology , virus
Summary 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 .