We describe a rare case of clinically mild, influenza-associated encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion. A 12-year-old Japanese girl presented with fever and headache, followed by muscle weakness and somnolence. Magnetic resonance imaging on day 4 of her illness showed a solitary lesion of the splenium of the corpus callosum that was most prominently visualized on diffusion-weighted images.
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