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Symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, neurological deficits such as aphasia and epileptic seizures. While hemorrhagic transformation is a common complication in HSVE, intracerebral hematoma (ICH) as the initial or main presentation is rare. We present two patients with HSVE who displayed a large temporal hematoma as the main finding on cerebral imaging. We further conducted a systematic literature review to identify all published cases of ICH in HSVE. Forty-nine publications met the inclusion criteria, describing a total of 55 patients. In 38 of these, HSVE could be definitely confirmed by brain biopsy, autopsy or PCR. We analyzed these cases according to age, gender, lag from symptom onset to hospital admission, lag from hospital admission to detection of hemorrhage, location of encephalitis and hemorrhage, received treatment and outcome. With a median age of 45 years, this cohort is significantly younger than general HSVE populations described previously. 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