Neurotoxic syndrome in infectious diseases in children
Berestov, A.I.; Blokhin, B.M.; Zhilina, S.S.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 85(10): 1481-1483
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 4072507 Document Number: 252185
On the material of 72 children with infectious toxicoses the authors describe the encephalic syndrome as a manifestation of the neurotoxic syndrome. The neurotoxic syndrome was studied clinically and morphologically. A marked syndrome was characterized by a considerable edema of the brain and its stem and not infrequently by the vedging of the cerebellum into the great occipital orifice. Hemispheric focal symptomatology was typically associated with intracranial hemorrhage which was considered as a manifestation of the DIC syndrome. The authors believe that the neurotoxic syndrome in infectious toxicoses should be considered as general cerebral disorders of noninflammatory nature manifested in non-specific morphofunctional and metabolic disturbances.