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Remote cerebellar hemorrhage after lumbar puncture in herpes simplex encephalitis
Author(s) -
Nakata Ruka,
Motomura Masakatsu,
Morikawa Minoru,
Yoshimura Toshiro,
Kawakami Atsushi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
neurology and clinical neuroscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
0ISSN - 2049-4173
DOI - 10.1111/ncn3.12018
Subject(s) - medicine , cerebellar hemisphere , lesion , lumbar puncture , hematoma , encephalitis , complication , radiology , surgery , magnetic resonance imaging , pathology , cerebrospinal fluid , virus , virology
Remote cerebellar hemorrhage is reported as a possible complication after supratentorial surgery and spinal surgery, and there is no previous report after lumbar puncture. A 44‐year‐old man was diagnosed with Herpes simplex virus ( HSV ) encephalitis, which was complicated with cerebellar hemorrhage remote from the active encephalitis lesion. The hematoma in the cerebellar hemisphere, shown as low a intensity lesion in a T2 star weighted angiography, image was diagnosed as a remote cerebellar hemorrhage caused by lumbar puncture. Physicians must be aware of this streaky, zebra‐pattern radiographic image of remote cerebellar hemorrhage.