ENCEPHALOMYELITIS AND "HEMORRHAGIC VIRUS PNEUMONIA" COMPLICATING MEASLES
- 1 September 1934
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 32 (3) , 560-568
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1934.02250090097008
Abstract
The occurrence of lesions in the central nervous system as a complication of measles was first indicated by Lucas1in 1790, when he reported the clinical aspects of a case in which myelitis developed six days after the appearance of the rash. The condition was called "acute disseminated encephalomyelitis" by Westphal2in 1872. The pathologic changes were accurately described by Barlow and Penrose3in 1886. Individual cases have occasionally been reported in France, Germany and England during the last century, but in the past few years epidemics of measles have occurred in which the incidence of nervous sequelae is unusually high. During 1926 Neale and Applebaum4saw eight cases in the state of New York. Greenfield,5of London, reported having examined material from four cases within three months, in 1928. A report of the pathologic changes in four fatal cases occurring in the spring ofKeywords
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