Acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) of childhood is a rapidly progressive encephalopathy that can occur after common viral infections such as influenza and Para influenza in healthy children. ANE Was described for the first time in a Japanese child and since then there have been over 200 reports in the literature. Here we report the clinical and neuropathologic findings of an Iranian child with the acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE).
