Pearls & Oy-sters: chronic mumps meningoencephalitis with low CSF glucose and acute hydrocephalus in an adult.

Inés Escalza Cortina,Itxaso Azkune Calle,Aida Rodriguez-Sainz,Marian Gomez Beldarrain,Iñigo Vicente Olabarría,Juan Carlos Garcia Monco

Pearls & Oy-sters: chronic mumps meningoencephalitis with low CSF glucose and acute hydrocephalus in an adult.

2014

Inés Escalza Cortina
Itxaso Azkune Calle
Aida Rodriguez-Sainz
Marian Gomez Beldarrain
Iñigo Vicente Olabarría
Juan Carlos Garcia Monco

Chronic lymphocytic meningoencephalitis with low glucose and increased adenosine deaminase (ADA) levels in the CSF together with hydrocephalus represents a diagnostic challenge of varied etiology and only seldom is due to a viral (mumps) infection.

Keywords:

Gastroenterology
Diabetes mellitus
Hydrocephalus
Low glucose
Physical therapy
Mumps meningoencephalitis
Lymphocytic meningoencephalitis
Etiology
CSF glucose
Medicine
Internal medicine
Pathology
Adenosine deaminase
acute hydrocephalus

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