SUBACUTE EPIDEMIC (LETHARGIC) ENCEPHALITIS

Subacute brain-stem encephalitis.

A 65 year old man developed progressive signs of pontine and medullary dysfunction with striking bilateral paralysis of lateral gaze, dysarthria, dysphagia, and ataxia. A respiratory death occurred seven months from the onset. Pathological examination revealed focal brain-stem changes of perivascular lymphocytic cuffing, microglial infiltration, glial nodules, and neuronophagia. No underlying m...

Epidemic Encephalitis

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A Case of Subacute Inclusion Encephalitis

Cases of subacute inclusion encephalitis were first described by Dawson (1933, 1934) in a youth aged 16 and a girl of 5 years in Tennesee. The changes were mainly in the grey matter and inclusions of Cowdry type A were found in neurones and oligodendrocytes. In the next 20 years 18 similar cases had been reported, 12 in males and six in females, all in children or young people in their first tw...

Recovery from Presumed Subacute Inclusion-body Encephalitis.

[A case of subacute inclusion encephalitis].

Cases of subacute inclusion encephalitis were first described by Dawson (1933, 1934) in a youth aged 16 and a girl of 5 years in Tennesee. The changes were mainly in the grey matter and inclusions of Cowdry type A were found in neurones and oligodendrocytes. In the next 20 years 18 similar cases had been reported, 12 in males and six in females, all in children or young people in their first tw...