CRANIAL AND PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY DUE TO EPSTEIN-BARR-VIRUS INFECTION

Authors
GAVIN C LANGAN Y HUTCHINSON M
Citation
C. Gavin et al., CRANIAL AND PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY DUE TO EPSTEIN-BARR-VIRUS INFECTION, Postgraduate medical journal, 73(861), 1997, pp. 419-420
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Postgraduate medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00325473
Volume
73
Issue
861
Year of publication
1997
Pages
419 - 420
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(1997)73:861<419:CAPNDT>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
A case of Epstein-Earr virus infection with neurological complications is described. An 18-year-old man developed cranial neuropathy and per ipheral sensorimotor polyneuropathy three weeks after a sore throat. T hough severely affected initially, he made a good recovery and no spec ific therapeutic intervention appears to have influenced his clinical course.