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We report on a 75-year-old male retired school teacher who developed subacute deficits in orientation over the course of 2 weeks. Due to MRI findings that indicated hemorrhagic transformation and edema of both thalami together with a slight CSF pleocytosis, the patient was treated by the referring hospital with acyclovir against viral encephalitis.
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Wojtecki, L., Schnitzler, A. (2016). Bilateral Lesions of the Thalamus: A Neuropsychiatric Challenge. In: Priller, J., Rickards, H. (eds) Neuropsychiatry Case Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42190-2_38
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