Central nervous system and renal vasculitis associated with primary varicella infection in a child.

@article{Caruso2001CentralNS,
  title={Central nervous system and renal vasculitis associated with primary varicella infection in a child.},
  author={J M Caruso and Glenn A. Tung and William D. Brown},
  journal={Pediatrics},
  year={2001},
  volume={107 1},
  pages={
          E9
        }
}
A 7-year-old girl with primary varicella presented with encephalopathy and focal neurologic deficits 10 days after her first skin lesions appeared. She was discovered to have bilateral wedge-shaped renal infarctions, and ischemic lesions in the conus medullaris, cerebral cortex, and deep gray matter consistent with a medium and large vessel arteritis on magnetic resonance imaging. This complication has never before been reported in an immunocompetent child with primary varicella infection, and… 
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