Motor disorder among pediatric patients with Japanese encephalitis after acute stage
- Author:
Hang Minh Dang
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Japanese encephalitis
- MeSH:
Encephalitis, Japanese;
Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1998;225(9):26-31
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
During the 1997-2000, 62 children patients with Japanese encephalitis were treated at the Pediatric Department, Vietnam Institute of Traditional Medicine for motor sequelae. The age range was from 8 months to 15 years, and 27 of them were girls. All of them had motor disorders as follows:-52 cases with tetraplegia.-43 cases with severe and complete paralysis (according to Henry degree)- 57 cases with spastic paralysis, and 5 cases with flaccid paralysis.-34 cases with extrapyramidal contracture, and 32 cases with marked axial dystonia
