@article{3114705,
    title = "Acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood in non-Asian patients:
Report of three cases and literature review",
    author = "Mastroyianni, Sotiria D. and Gionnis, Dimitrios and Voudris, and Konstantinos and Skardoutsou, Angeliki and Mizuguchi, Masashi",
    journal = "Journal of Child Neurology",
    year = "2006",
    volume = "21",
    number = "10",
    pages = "872-879",
    publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
    issn = "0883-0738, 1708-8828",
    doi = "10.1177/08830738060210101401",
    abstract = "Acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood is a novel type of
parainfectious encephalopathy with a racial and geographic predilection,
rarely reported from other than East Asian areas. The objective was to
describe the clinical, imaging, and other laboratory findings of
non-Asian patients with acute necrotizing encephalopathy. Data were
collected from three patients diagnosed in Athens over a 4-year period
plus 16 cases reported from other European and North American countries.
One of the Greek children died, and the other two had a normal outcome.
A neuropathologic examination in the fatal case showed edematous
necrosis without inflammatory, reactive, or proliferative changes. Data
from Greek and other non-Asian patients support the homogeneity of the
disease worldwide."
}