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SUBMITTER: Halling G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4202304 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Halling Geoffrey G Giannini Caterina C Britton Jeffrey W JW Lee Ricky W RW Watson Robert E RE Terrell Christine L CL Parney Ian F IF Buckingham Erin M EM Carpenter John E JE Grose Charles C
The Journal of infectious diseases 20140305 5
Herein we describe an episode of focal varicella-zoster virus (VZV) encephalitis in a healthy young man with neither rash nor radicular pain. The symptoms began with headaches and seizures, after which magnetic resonance imaging detected a single hyperintense lesion in the left temporal lobe. Because of the provisional diagnosis of a brain tumor, the lesion was excised and submitted for pathological examination. No tumor was found. But the tissue immunostained positively for VZV antigens, and wi ...[more]