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Case Reports
. 1976 Oct;29(10):865-72.
doi: 10.1136/jcp.29.10.865.

Measles inclusion-body encephalitis in a child with treated acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

H C Drysdale, L F Jones, D R Oppenheimer, A H Tomlinson
Case Reports

Measles inclusion-body encephalitis in a child with treated acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

H C Drysdale et al. J Clin Pathol. 1976 Oct.

Abstract

A child with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, being treated in the UKALL II Trial, had while in remission an attack of measles and made a normal recovery. Four months later she developed an acute encephalopathy and died within two weeks. The brain showed mild inflammatory features and widespread inclusion bodies in neurones and glial cells. Immunofluorescence proved an infection with measles virus. Similar cases have been called SSPE; reasons are given for preferring the term "measles inclusion-body encephalitis".

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