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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1989;52:975-979 doi:10.1136/jnnp.52.8.975
  • Research Article

Combined HIV-CMV encephalitis presenting with brainstem signs.

  1. G N Fuller,
  2. R J Guiloff,
  3. F Scaravilli,
  4. J N Harcourt-Webster
  1. Department of Neurology, Westminster Hospital, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, UK.

      Abstract

      Two cases of combined HIV-CMV encephalitis are described. One presented with a sixth nerve palsy and a tetraparesis, the other with an internuclear ophthalmoplegia. Pathologically brain stem involvement was predominantly due to CMV.

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