THE CLINICAL PICTURE AND PATHOGENESIS OF POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY IN TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS

Based on examination of tick-borne encephalitis patients with ascendin g polyradiculoneuropathy the authors describe the character of the dis ease, its clinical picture and the results of laboratory studies, etc. Differential diagnosis is made between the indicated syndrome associa ted with tick-borne encephalitis and sporadic polyradiculoneuropathies . A detailed description is given for the first time of the clinical a nd pathomorphological picture of that gravest form of tick-borne encep halitis. As regards the character of the clinical and pathomorphologic al alterations, the ascending polyradiculoneuropathy associated with t ick-borne encephalitis is meningoencephalomyelitis with the radicular syndrome which often determines the disease gravity and prognosis.