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BENIGN RECURRENT ASEPTIC MENINGITIS OF UNKNOWN AETIOLOGY (MOLLARET'S MENINGITIS)
Author(s) -
Iivanainen Matti
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1973.tb01284.x
Subject(s) - aseptic meningitis , medicine , meningitis , etiology , weakness , cheek , surgery , pediatrics , pathology
Two male patients with Mollaret's benign recurrent aseptic meningitis are presented, their respective ages at onset being 15 and 21 years. The former has had five attacks during three years and the latter 10 attacks during 15 years. In both patients two of the attacks were afebrile. The younger patient had an epileptic fit during one attack and later another epileptic fit unconnected with meningitis. The older man experienced transient unilateral hypaesthesia, with motor weakness of the arm and homolateral cheek and tongue during two attacks. The EEG of the former patient showed general alterations with fluctuating focal accentuations without spikes or sharp waves, while that of the latter showed transient fluctuating focal abnormalities with a normal background alpha rhythm. No microbial agent or immunological aberration of the patients could be implicated.