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To the Editor: In their article on neurologic complications associated with enterovirus 71 infection, Huang et al. (Sept. 23 issue)¹ reported the presence of severe brain-stem lesions, as evidenced by findings on magnetic resonance imaging in many patients and by autopsy findings in one. Our own pathological findings (unpublished data), based on a detailed autopsy examination of four patients,² also showed inflammation confined to the gray matter of the spinal cord and medulla and the tegmentum of the midbrain and pons. In all our patients, as in theirs, there was no inflammation in pontine nuclei. We noted inflammation in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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