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Cytotoxic Lesion of the Corpus Callosum Caused by Puumala Hantavirus Infection

Open Access
|Jan 2019

Abstract

We report the case of a 45-year-old male referred to our hospital with fever, asthenia, visual disturbances and increasing headaches. Diffusion-weighted imaging of the brain showed high signal intensity in the splenium of corpus callosum with low apparent diffusion coefficient values. Diagnosis of cytotoxic lesion of corpus callosum was made with Puumala Hantavirus infection serologically confirmed and should not be mistaken for ischemia. Patient was discharged 8 days after admission and imaging findings had resolved 3 weeks later.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1616 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8281
Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 27, 2018
Accepted on: Jan 2, 2019
Published on: Jan 21, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2019 Olivier Lebecque, Nicolas Mulquin, Michaël Dupont, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.