Unusual Twin Pregnancy.
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SIR,-I wish to refer to the excellent article by Drs. H. G. Miller, J. B. Stanton, and J. L. Gibbons on acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (Journal, March 23, p. 668). Unfortunately, however, it perpetuates an error which has crept into the literature concerning the reports of cases in which the condition of acute haemorrhagic leuco-encephalitis has complicated an infectious exanthem. In 1945 Shallard and Latham' reported a case of acute haemorrhagic leucoencephalitis occurring in a female child whose two younger brothers had developed measles one week before the onset of her first symptom. In 1955, in discussing briefly the possible role of a virus in the aetiology of the condition,2 I mentioned, as possible superficial evidence, this presence of measles in the siblings of the female child described by Shallard and Latham. Subsequently, Blackwood' incorrectly reported that the female child described by Shallard and Latham was herself suffering from measles. This error has now been reiterated by Miller, Stanton, and Gibbons. While I would agree that the evidence certainly appears to suggest that acute haemorrhagic leuco-encephalitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis of a post-exanthematous type are but variants of the one pathological entity,'6 the fact nevertheless remains, to my knowledge, that in only one human case so far has acute haemorrhagic leucoencephalitis been reported as complicating an acute infectious disease-that is, varicella.'-l am, etc.,
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 2 5420 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1964