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Acute infantile thalamic necrosis
J P Vieira1, N L Antunes, A L Gomes
1Paediatric Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa, Portugal.
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
An acute encephalopathy of infancy presenting as seizures and coma following a presumably infectious disease with the distinctive finding of thalamic necrosis was recently described. The authors report a similar case in an 11-month-old infant, and discuss its possible pathogenesis.