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Washington University Experience | INFECTION | Viruses | Herpes Simplex type I (HSV-1) | HSV-I Encephalitis, Residua | 1A1 HSV I Encephalitis (Med Examiner case) 4 copy

This image of the brain shows significant destruction of the temporal poles leaving prominent vasculature behind. It also appears possible that the right cingulate gyrus has also been damaged and is shrunken (arrow) The lateral ventricles show dilatation and blunting of their angles, a finding whose etiology is not definitively established without microscopic examination.

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