Pontine Tegmentum Lesions Accompanying Myelitis During an Enterovirus Outbreak: Differential Diagnosis and Outcome.

Various etiologic agents can be detected in patients with pontine involvement, even in a series collected during an outbreak of EV-D68. Encephalitis has a fair outcome but clinical recovery is slow and motor sequalae are frequent in spinal involvement, irrespective of follow-up spinal MRI findings.