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Rasmussen encephalitis is typically a chronic inflammatory disease of a one brain hemisphere in children. A MRI course of initial swelling and progressive brain atrophy and tissue destruction later on reflects the inflammatory changes; however, many patients show some brain atrophy already at their initial MRI examination.
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Urbach, H., Bien, C.G. (2013). Rasmussen Encephalitis. In: Urbach, H. (eds) MRI in Epilepsy. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2012_573
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