Abstract Title:

A 16-year-old girl with bilateral visual loss and left hemiparesis following an immunization against human papilloma virus.

Abstract Source:

J Child Neurol. 2010 Mar;25(3):321-7. PMID: 20189933

Abstract Author(s):

Francis J DiMario, Mirna Hajjar, Thomas Ciesielski

Article Affiliation:

Departments of Pediatrics, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA. [email protected]

Abstract:

We report the course of a 16-year-old girl who presented with near complete visual loss associated with chiasmal neuritis and a biopsy proven tumefactive demyelinating lesion on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in association with a recent immunization against human papilloma virus.

Study Type : Human Study

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