NEUROLOGICAL AFFECTATION BY VARICELLA-ZOS TER VIRUS WITHOUT CUTANEOUSLESIONS

We studied three cases of inflammatory neurological disease and serolo gical evidence of varicella-zoster viral (VZV) infection without cutan eous manifestation. They corresponded to a case of cranial multineurit is, a case of aseptic meningitis, and another case of meningoencephali tis. Despite the infrequency of any such association, the spectrum of the neurological diseases associated with VZV without skin lesions is quite wide. We are motivated to present our experience by the belief t hat it is important to think about this possible etiology based on inf lammatory areas at different levels of the Nervous System in patients who are still immunocompetent.