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

Escalza-Cortina, Ines; Azkune-Calle, Itxaso; Rodriguez-Sainz, Aida; Gomez-Beldarrain, Marian; Vicente-Olabarría, Iñigo; Garcia-Monco, Juan Carlos · Neurology · 2014

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

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.

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