DOI: 10.1177/2333794x231214084 ISSN: 2333-794X
A Case Report of Rasmussen Encephalitis and its Stages: The Important Role of Imaging
El Harras Yahya, Laasri Khadija, Bahlouli Nourrelhouda, Allali Nazik, Chat Latifa, El Haddad Siham- Pediatrics
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Relatively rare, Rasmussen encephalitis is a chronic inflammatory disease conditioning a single cerebral hemisphere. It is a progressive pathology with different stages clinically and on MRI. Therefore, imaging has an important role in evoking the diagnosis and also excluding other possible etiologies. We report a case of Rasmussen encephalitis with 2 different stages on MRI and also provide a review of the role of imaging in diagnostic criteria, differential diagnoses, and stages of this pathology.