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Case Reports
. 2021 Apr 30;92(S1):e2021129.
doi: 10.23750/abm.v92iS1.10702.

A Parsonage-Turner Syndrome secondary to Parvovirus B19 infection

Flavio Mozzani  1 , Noemi Giuliana Marino  2 , Andrea Becciolini  3 , Eleonora Di Donato  4 , Alarico Ariani  5 , Daniele Santilli  6
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Case Reports

A Parsonage-Turner Syndrome secondary to Parvovirus B19 infection

Flavio Mozzani et al. Acta Biomed. .

Abstract

Parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is a small DNA virus that causes the fifth disease in children; however it can also affect adults. The infection can be asymptomatic in about a quarter of healthy subjects. Typical clinical manifestations are: short lived fever accompanied by asthenia, myalgias and pharyngodynia; symmetrical acute polyarthritis; megalo-erytema in child; maculopulotic rash and/or fleeting purpuric at the extremities in adult; adenopathies in the cervical area. Atypical manifestions can affect neurological system (both central and peripheral), hearth and kidney. We describe a 37-year-old man with neuralgic amyotrophy (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) caused by Parvovirus B19 infection.

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