Poor neurological sequelae of herpes simplex virus encephalitis in an infant despite adequate antiviral and adjunct corticosteroid therapy

• Main Authors: Ratna B Basak (Author), Varsha Malpani (Author), Khalid Kakish (Author), Susan Vargese (Author), Nageshwar Chauhan (Author), Andreas Boeck (Author)
• 格式: 圖書
• 出版: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• 主題: article
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A 2-month-old infant presented to our emergency department with fever, altered consciousness, and focal seizures of acute onset. He had vesicular skin lesions over the right preauricular region. CT brain showed a large hypodense lesion involving the left temporo-parietal region, left basal ganglia a...