Substantia nigra lesions in viral encephalitis

✍ Scribed by Charulata Sankhla Savant; B.S. Singhal; Joseph Jankovic; Mak Khan; Amin Virani

• Book ID: 102505631
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 188 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-3185
• DOI: 10.1002/mds.10339

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Post‐encephalitic parkinsonism is a well‐known entity, but involvement of the basal ganglia is rarely documented. We describe a 21‐year‐old man who developed parkinsonism following encephalitic illness presumed to be of viral origin with substantia nigra lesions evident on magnetic resonance imaging scan.