TY  - JOUR
T1  - CErebral complications in mumps
AU  - CASPARIS HR
Y1  - 1919/09/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1919.04110330037005
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 187
EP  - 193
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
N2  - Involvement of the central nervous system during the course of mumps has been recognized for many years. In 1761, Hamilton1 reported a case in a young man who died on the second day of cerebral manifestations which had developed during an attack of mumps. Frenel,2 in 1812; Malabouche,3 in 1867; Niemeyer,4 in 1869, and others reported single instances of this complication. Then in 1877 Gailhard5 reported six cases. He described in more detail the clinical manifestations, but it was not until 1880 when Maximovitch6 at necropsy found the surface of the brain edematous, the sulci filled with semifibrinous exudation and hyperemia of the pons and of the spinal cord, that there was any suggestion of the actual nature of the involvement of the central nervous system. Since then many cases have been reported, especally by the French, but it is only recently that a
SN  - 0096-8994
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1919.04110330037005
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1919.04110330037005
ER  -