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3443429

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-5-12
pubmed:abstractText
"Acute diffuse lymphocytic meningoencephalitis" is characterized neuropathologically by swelling of the brain and an unproportionally slight degree of inflammatory findings. Although many cases of this encephalitis have been reported in Japan, it was scarcely reported in other countries. The present case is a girl who had been well until fifteen years of age. She became psychotic on the 7th day after she seemed to have caught a cold. She fell into coma on the 15th day, then neurologic symptoms, such as nuchal rigidity and athetoid movement became prominent. She developed the status epilepticus with a high temperature of 41 degrees C, and died on the 23rd day. Although there was an increase of mononuclear cells in the cerebrospinal fluid (32/microliters), various antiviral titers were normal both in serum and cerebrospinal fluid. Neuropathologic changes were edema, perivascular lymphocytic infiltration in leptomeninges and parenchyma, and proliferation of rod-shaped microglia particularly prominent in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus. It is peculiar that thickening of leptomeninges formed by collagen fibers and inflammatory cells was observed. On the systemic study, centrolobular fatty change of the liver was found. This case had to be differentiated from several other neuro-psychiatric illnesses. The problems were discussed clinically and neuropathologically.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0367-6102
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
62
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
859-65
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
A case of acute diffuse lymphocytic meningoencephalitis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports