Abstract
We report the case of an adult patient with a focus of meningioencephalitis in whom
the earliest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) manifestation was hyperintense signal
on diffusion-weighted (DW) sequence only. To our knowledge, this is the first adult
encephalitis case to be reported with the MRI diffusion-weighted pulse sequence being
the only positive MRI finding. A brief review of the pertinent literature is included.
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Received:
August 25,
2002
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© 2003 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
