Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare disease which predominantly affects children of school age. The diagnosis is made on the clinical features and the presence of periodic complexes in the electro-encephalogram. There is a paretic colloidal gold curve in the cerebrospinal fluid but the cell count and protein are usually within normal limits. The histology of a brain biopsy taken during lifemayconfirm the diagnosis. The aetiology of subacute sclerosing pancencephalitis
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1971
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Postgraduate medical journal
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1971-04-01
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Medicine
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Semantic Scholar, PubMed
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