Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection may cause striatal lesions leading to acute neurologic dysfunction

Neurology. 1993 Oct;43(10):2150-1. doi: 10.1212/wnl.43.10.2150.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carbidopa / therapeutic use
  • Caudate Nucleus / pathology
  • Child
  • Corpus Striatum / pathology*
  • Erythromycin / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Levodopa / therapeutic use
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / diagnosis
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / drug therapy
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / pathology*
  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae / isolation & purification
  • Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / diagnosis
  • Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / drug therapy
  • Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / pathology*
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Putamen / pathology

Substances

  • Levodopa
  • Erythromycin
  • Carbidopa