Acute Cerebellar Ataxia
- 3 December 1959
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 261 (23), 1159-1162
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195912032612304
Abstract
A CUTE cerebellar ataxia of childhood has been reviewed by several authors.1 2 3 Approximately 75 case reports have appeared in the literature; however, the syndrome is probably more common than this figure suggests. The disease is characterized by sudden onset in children one to twelve years of age, especially two to five, without apparent cause or in the course of an acute infectious disease. There is usually no fever, and cerebellar signs such as staggering gait, intention tremors, hypotonia, dysarthria, dysmetria and nystagmus are the major clinical manifestations. Signs of involvement of other areas of the central nervous system occur but . . .Keywords
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