[Varicella, acute postinfectious arteriopathy and cerebral arterial thrombosis in childhood: a unique clinical and etiologic framework to be fully acknowledged].
Acute arteriopathies are the etiological factor of 25% of all the cerebral arterial thrombosis cases in childhood; they give way to ischemic strokes which have specific clinical and radiological features; varicella is the etiologic factor in 60% of the cases; favorable outcome is the rule; physiopathology and treatment remain under discussion.
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Service de pédiatrie, CHG Bisson, 14100 Lisieux, France. marcelgu@wanadoo.fr
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000209:etiology; D002539:Cerebral Arterial Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology*; D002644:Chickenpox / Q000150:complications*; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D020767:Intracranial Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology