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01 May 2025 : Case report  China

Fatal Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy in a 17-Year-Old Girl with COVID-19: A Case Report

Challenging differential diagnosis, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents, Management of emergency care, Unexpected drug reaction, Rare disease, Clinical situation which can not be reproduced for ethical reasons

Jianming Zhu AF 1, Yanling Li B 1, Jianyi Liu ORCID logo D 1, Chaojun Zhou C 1, Xianglin Liu ORCID logo ABCDEF 1*, Yiyi Ding AE 2

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.946932

Am J Case Rep 2025; 26:e946932

Figure 2 The cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. Cranial MRI transverse relaxation time (T2) sequence axial view (A1–A3) showing multiple symmetrical bilateral thalamic, basal ganglia, and cerebellar and brainstem swelling. Thalamic lesions were hyperintense on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) sequence (B), hypointense in the center and hyperintense in the periphery on apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) sequence (C).

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American Journal of Case Reports eISSN: 1941-5923
American Journal of Case Reports eISSN: 1941-5923