Short report
High-grade glioma mimicking acute viral encephalitis 
three
case reports
J H Rees, R S Howard
National Hospital
for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Accepted 13 May 1999
The clinical features of viral encephalitis consist of
headache, fever, seizures and encephalopathy. We report three patients with high-grade gliomas presenting with encephalitic illnesses. The
diagnosis of brain tumour should always be borne in mind if definite
evidence for a viral infection is not obtained.
Keywords: glioma; viral encephalitis; encephalopathy
© 1999 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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