Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinicoradiologic entity that usually manifests with headache, blindness, convulsions and altered mental status [
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2]. The typical imaging features of PRES are the presence of vasogenic oedema in the parieto-occipital lobes and the subcortical white matter. In 10–20% of cases, an atypical radiological presentation of PRES involving the basal ganglia and brainstem, called central-variant PRES, has been described, in which classical parieto-occipital abnormalities were absent [
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2]. …