Ilona Kopyta, Katarzyna Wojaczńska-Stanek, Elzbieta Marszał
Chickenpox is one of the most common infectious diseases in children. In most of the cases the disease is mild and no complications of it are being observed. However, in some of the paediatric patients, the disease may have a serious course with different complications. Most of them are not life-threatening, but some of them, like myocarditis, hepatitis or thrombocytopenia, may be dangerous. Neurological complications of Varicella-zoster virus infection, like encephalitis, meningitis, transverse myelitis, cerebellitis, polyneuropathy or an ischemic stroke, are relatively rare...
2007: Wiadomości Lekarskie: Organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego