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Case Reports
. 2021 Feb;51(1):99-101.
doi: 10.1016/j.medmal.2020.09.018. Epub 2020 Oct 4.

First Case of Mild Encephalopathy with Reversible Splenial Lesion in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

[Article in French]
Jeanne Chauffier  1 , Nora Poey  2 , Maya Husain  2 , Thomas De Broucker  3 , Antoine Khalil  4 , Sylvie Lariven  2 , Marie-Cécile Henry-Feugeas  4
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Case Reports

First Case of Mild Encephalopathy with Reversible Splenial Lesion in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

[Article in French]
Jeanne Chauffier et al. Infect Dis Now. 2021 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID; SARS-CoV-2; brain diseases; corpus callosum; encephalopathy.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Diffusion-weighted (left) and FLAIRT2-weighted (right) MR images showed a small ovoid lesion located in the center of the splenium of the corpus callosum (arrows).
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF) map from an Arterial Spin Labelling perfusion MR sequence showed a slight hypoperfusion of the left temporal cortex (arrows) as compared with the right side (arrowheads).
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