Encephalitis and polyneuritis complicating varicella zoster infection
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Vol. 57 (670) , 507-508
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.57.670.507
Abstract
Summary: A 70-year-old patient is described who developed symptoms and signs of a Guillain-Barré-type neuropathy and encephalopathy beginning 6 weeks after a cutaneous varicella zoster eruption. The patient made a complete symptomatic recovery over a period of 4 months. It is suggested that the delayed onset neuropathy and encephalopathy in this patient may have been due to an allergic inflammatory response to an antigen common to peripheral and central myelin.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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