ENCEPHALOMYELITIS COMPLICATING MEASLES
- 1 November 1930
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 24 (5) , 1000-1013
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1930.02220170120012
Abstract
The majority of the reports on central nervous system complications of measles have appeared since 1925. The impetus created by the reports by Mosse,1Bergenfeldt,2and especially Wohlwill,3of a definite anatomic picture associated with clinical cerebral complications during the course of, or immediately following, measles is probably responsible for this. And yet it is the opinion of men of such wide experience as Spielmeyer that the encephalitis of measles as well as of the anatomically related postvaccinal encephalitis has been seen in recent years, whereas it was practically unknown previously. Case reports of the condition appeared sporadically in the past, in a day when anatomic studies of the nervous system were limited technically, which prevented the recognition of the true nature of the disease from an anatomic point of view and possibly discouraged clinical case reports. For instance, the reports of Bergeron in 1868, of BayleKeywords
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