[Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in adults. Anatomo-clinical illustration in 1 case]

A 23 years old man suffering from SSPE died 18 months after the onset of the disease. The clinical picture, EEG and immunological tests were typical for SSPE, and so was the anatomo-pathological investigation; the only difference was that the Cowdry type A inclusion bodies were absent. The peculiarity of this case consists in the fact that the disease appeared in an adult. In the literature we found very few cases of SSPE with such a late onset.