Complicated encephalitis in pediatrics: a case report
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Encephalitis is a potentially fatal inflammation of the brain parenchyma, of infectious or immunological etiology. This article is a case report of a 9-month-old child who evolved to death, demonstrating the difficulty in making the diagnosis, due to the symptoms of this disease being, in most cases, nonspecific and with several differential diagnoses.
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