Infectious Mononucleosis Complicated by Bilateral Papilloretinal Edema

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Abstract
WITHIN the last decade the literature concerning infectious mononucleosis has often been reviewed by competent authors.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 With each review the analyst has been careful to stress the variety of signs and symptoms manifested in this disease, which is not rare but frequently overlooked. Of all the reports that have been rendered, none has recorded the presence of a complicating transient, bilateral papilloretinal edema in the absence of a clinical picture of meningitis or encephalitis. An adequate description of the clinical picture of this disease, with special emphasis on the cerebral complications, was given by Thelander and Shaw8 in 1941. In . . .

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