Imaging findings in congenital Zika virus infection syndrome: an update.
Childs Nerv Syst
; 34(1): 85-93, 2018 01.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29181810
BACKGROUND: Zika virus (ZIKV) is a neurotropic and neurotoxic RNA Flavivirus prompt to cause severe fetal brain dysmorphisms during pregnancy, a period of rapid and critical central nervous system development. A wide range of clinico-radiological findings of congenital ZIKV infections were reported in the literature, such as microcephaly, overlapping sutures, cortical migrational and corpus callosum abnormalities, intracranial calcifications, ventriculomegaly, brain stem and cerebellar malformations, spinal cord involvement, and joint contractures. ZIKV is also related to other severe neurological manifestations in grown-up individuals such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and encephalomyelitis. PURPOSE: Our purpose is to review the radiological central nervous system abnormalities of congenital ZIKV infection syndrome on different imaging modalities.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neuroimagem
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Infecção por Zika virus
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
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En
Revista:
Childs Nerv Syst
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PEDIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Alemanha