RT Journal
A1 PETERMAN MG, FOX MJ
T1 POstmeasles encephalitis
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1939
FD June 1
VO 57
IS 6
SP 1253
OP 1259
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990060033003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990060033003
AB In 1933 we reported 13 cases of encephalitis complicating measles.1 This was the largest single series of cases of this disease entity reported in the literature to that date. These cases occurred during an extensive epidemic of measles in 1931 and 1932 (15,001 cases reported). The monthly incidence of the complications was proportionate to that of measles. Milwaukee experienced another epidemic of measles in the first five months of 1938 (27,081 cases reported). During this period we observed, mainly through the permission of our colleagues, 14 cases of postmeasles encephalitis. We wish to report our findings in these cases. The essential clinical data are summarized in table 1. The laboratory findings are listed in table 2.It may be noted that in our entire series of 27 cases the clinical and the laboratory findings present a clearcut picture, suggesting a definite disease entity. All of the patients except 1