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A rare cause of encephalitis with hypothermia and hyponatremia

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  1. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, PL6 8DH, UK

    Manal Elgendy, Shakya Bhattacharjee, Stuart J. Weatherby & Daniel J. Lashley

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ME: study concept and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, study supervision, critical revision of manuscript for intellectual content. SB: Analysis and interpretation of data, study supervision, critical revision. SJW: study supervision, critical revision. DL: Critical revision.

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Correspondence to Shakya Bhattacharjee.

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All procedures performed during this study (article 10.1007/s13760-020-01390-7) complied with the hospital’s ethical standards and institutional ethics committee approved the study. The study conformed to the international ethical guidelines (Helsinki declarations, later revised in Tokyo in 2004). No study advertising was made and no remuneration was offered.

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Supplementary Figure: The Positron Emission Tomogram (PET) of the whole body including the brain showed no abnormal uptake (JPG 70 kb)

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Elgendy, M., Bhattacharjee, S., Weatherby, S.J. et al. A rare cause of encephalitis with hypothermia and hyponatremia. Acta Neurol Belg 120, 1245–1246 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-020-01390-7

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