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Acute necrotising encephalopathy of childhood (ANE) is an uncommon disease which predominantly affects infants and young children living in Japan and Taiwan. A multifocal encephalopathy with symmetrical lesions in the thalamus, tegmentum of the brain stem, cerebral periventricular white matter and cerebellar medulla is characteristic. We present the imaging features in a 4-year-old Japanese boy who had been living in Germany for 21/2 years before presentation.
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Received: 21 August 1998 Accepted: 28 January 1999
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Porto, L., Lanferman, H., Möller-Hartmann, W. et al. Acute necrotising encephalopathy of childhood after exanthema subitum outside Japan or Taiwan. Neuroradiology 41, 732–734 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002340050833
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002340050833