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  • Title: Massive focal brain swelling as a feature of MELAS.
    Author: Breningstall GN, Lockman LA.
    Journal: Pediatr Neurol; 1988; 4(6):366-70. PubMed ID: 3245875.
    Abstract:
    Two patients are reported with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes in whom CT documented massive focal brain swelling with midline shift concurrent with exacerbations of their conditions. Brain swelling producing mass effect should be recognized as a feature of MELAS.
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