Ophthalmic examination as a means to diagnose Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: an optical coherence tomography and ultrawide field imaging evaluation

BACKGROUND: Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a potentially fatal complication of measles. The authors report a case of recurrent myoclonic jerks under investigation, whose ophthalmic examination pointed to the diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 12-year-old boy with recurrent episodes of my...

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Autores principales: Tripathy, Koushik, Chawla, Rohan, Mittal, Kanhaiya, Farmania, Rajni, Venkatesh, Pradeep, Gulati, Sheffali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28116334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40662-016-0066-2

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