Viruses may trigger allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome
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Fig. 1. MR imaging in the first 24 h after acute ipoxic–ischaemic brain damage. Axial apparent diffusion coefficient map shows a reduced ADC value (0.41) in posterior putamen and globus pallidus, and a high ADC value in anterior putamen and head of caudate nuclei (0.73), indicating the prevalence of T2 effect. The relatively high ADC value indicates chronic impairment of anterior portion of basal ganglia.
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