Schilder's encephalitis periaxialis diffusa: Report of a case in a child aged sixteen and one-half months
MM CANAVAN - Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry, 1931 - jamanetwork.com
This report is made to emphasize the care needed to separate cases of macrocephalus due
to diffuse degeneration of the brain from those due to hydrocephalus or tumor, with which
they might become confused. REPORT OF CASE History.—A white male child, born in
Roxbury, Mass., was first seen in the outpatient department when 10 weeks of age. The
complaints were: vomiting, constipation and failure to gain weight. There were a discharge
from the nose, redness of the left ear drum and a slight rachitic rosary over the ribs. Nothing …
to diffuse degeneration of the brain from those due to hydrocephalus or tumor, with which
they might become confused. REPORT OF CASE History.—A white male child, born in
Roxbury, Mass., was first seen in the outpatient department when 10 weeks of age. The
complaints were: vomiting, constipation and failure to gain weight. There were a discharge
from the nose, redness of the left ear drum and a slight rachitic rosary over the ribs. Nothing …