Radionuclide Imaging in Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 126 (1) , 181-184
- https://doi.org/10.1148/126.1.181
Abstract
Patients (8) with herpes simplex encephalitis among the 10 cases diagnosed at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA, from 1966-1976 were studied with 99mTc early in their diagnostic work-up. The images were unilaterally positive in the temporal lobe area in all 8 patients. Radionuclide studies can suggest herpes simplex as the specific etiology in cases of encephalitis and can also indicate the best site for brain biopsy to confirm the diagnosis by fluorescent antibody techniques. Appropriate antiviral therapy should be instituted as soon as possible to alter the course of this destructive form of viral encephalitis.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Idoxuridine in Herpes Simplex Virus (Type 1) EncephalitisAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1973
- Herpesvirus Infections of the Human Central Nervous SystemNew England Journal of Medicine, 1967