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Familial acute necrotizing encephalopathy with RANBP2 mutation: The first report in Northeast Asia.
Brain & development - 1 Aug 2017
Lee Yun-Jeong, Hwang Su-Kyeong, Lee So Mi, Kwon Soonhak
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BACKGROUND: Acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) is a rare but rapidly progressing encephalopathy following a febrile illness, commonly a viral infection. It is characterized by the features of acute encephalopathy such as seizure, alteration of consciousness, and symmetric involvement of the bilateral thalamus on neuroimaging tests. Although most ANE cases have occurred sporadically, familial or recurrent ANE...
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