We had a particularly entertaining Morning Report last Friday where we discussed the case of an elderly woman with subacute onset of memory disturbances, incontinence, ataxia and multiple focal neurologic deficits. Pending brain biopsy, her preliminary diagnosis is ...
HSV ENCEPHALITIS
Click the link below for a review of viral encephalitis:
http://journals1.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/tmp/10753946288144476016.pdf
("Brain rot" is not a term routinely used to describe HSV encephalitis, but rather was thrown out there by our MR facilitator and I found it somewhat amusing..)
