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Pre-eruptive neurologic manifestations associated with multiple cerebral infarcts in varicella
M Tsolia1, A Skardoutsou, G Tsolas
1Second Department of Pediatrics; University of Athens School of Medicine, Greece.
Pediatric Neurology
|February 1, 1995
Abstract:
A boy, 4 years, 9 months of age, presented with acute hemiplegia, lethargy, ataxia, and dysarthria 24 hours prior to the eruption of typical varicella exanthem. Magnetic resonance imaging findings were typical of multiple cerebral ischemic infarcts. It is suggested that during the period of secondary viremia varicella zoster virus invaded the cerebral blood vessels causing vasculopathy and cerebrovascular infarcts.