[Clinical aspects, diagnosis and treatment of various forms of viral encephalitis in children]. / Klinika, diagnostika i lechenie nekotorykh form virusnykh éntsefalitov u detei.

The authors provide the clinical and laboratory data on the etiological structure of acute viral encephalitides in children. Special attention is devoted to the description of the clinical picture of the gravest form of encephalitis caused by type I herpes simplex virus. Present the laboratory data on the long-term preservation of type I herpes simplex virus in the CNS, which correlates to the clinical and morphological findings of the subacute or recurrent course of the disease. Discuss the results of the treatment with the antiviral drug acyclovir (zovirax).

[Paralysis of external oculomotor muscles in children with infectious-allergic polyradiculoneuritis]. / Paralichi naruzhnykh glaznykh mushts u detei s infektsionno- allergicheskimi poliradikulonevropatiiami.

Clinical investigation of 42 children with infectious-allergic polyradiculoneuropathy (Guillain-Barre syndrome) revealed that pareses of lateral ocular muscles were present but in patients older than 5 years. The pathogenesis and differential diagnosis between Guillain-Barre and Tolosa-Hunt syndromes is discussed.