TY - JOUR
TI - Acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood in non-Asian patients:
Report of three cases and literature review
AU - Mastroyianni, Sotiria D.
AU - Gionnis, Dimitrios
AU - Voudris,
AU - Konstantinos
AU - Skardoutsou, Angeliki
AU - Mizuguchi, Masashi
JO - Journal of Child Neurology
PY - 2006
VL - 21
TODO - 10
SP - 872-879
PB - SAGE Publications Inc.
SN - 0883-0738, 1708-8828
TODO - 10.1177/08830738060210101401
TODO - null
TODO - 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.
ER -