title: Acute fulminant subacute sclerosing panencephalitis with absent measles and PCR studies in cerebrospinal fluid.
abstract: This report describes an atypical case of rapidly progressive subacute sclerosing panencephalitis presenting as transient visual agnosia and myoclonus in a 14-year-old male. There were no typical periodic complexes in serial electroencephalographic monitoring; cerebrospinal fluid measles antibody titer was negative. The diagnosis was made by molecular and histologic examination of open brain biopsy tissue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Brian H Y
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Patrick P K
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Ip
authors.forename: Virginia C N
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Janice Y C
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Lo
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Harding
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008457:Measles / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid* / Q000235:genetics; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D013344:Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid* / Q000235:genetics