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Diagnosis Approach and Management of Rhombencephalitis: Literature Review

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Rhombencephalitis refers to inflammatory diseases of the rhombencephalon. We present here a literature review of this pathology. It was originally described by Edwin Bickerstaff and Philip Cloake in 1951. The terms Rhombencephalitis and trunk encephalitis are interchangeable. It is a rare disease but potentially serious. The symptomatology is characterized, in some cases, by fever and alteration of consciousness, but also headache, nausea and vomiting sometimes. An involvement of the cranial nerves in the majority of the cases and or affected of the long ways. Paraclinically, cerebrospinal fluid and cerebral imaging can be normal in paraneoplastic causes or, on the other hand, be pathological in infectio-inflammatory causes. The etiologies are mainly distinguished in infectious, autoimmune and paraneoplastic pathologies. Treatment should be etiological by anti-infectives (antibiotics, antivirals, etc.) targeting curable germs such as listeria, mycobacterium tuberculosis or herpes, and/or symptomatic by corticosteroid or immunoglobulin IV. Rhombencephalitis is a rare nosological entity but is subject to severe neurological sequelae with a high mortality rate.

DOI 10.11648/j.cnn.20170102.15
Published in Clinical Neurology and Neuroscience (Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2017)
Page(s) 47-51
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Rhombencephalitis, Etiologies, Diagnosis, Management

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  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal; Department of Preventive Medecine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontostomatology, University of Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

  • Department of Neurology, Fann National Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

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    Ibrahima Mariam Diallo, Soumaila Boubacar, Mohamed Lelouma Mansaré, Ousmane Cissé, Japhari Nyassindé, et al. Diagnosis Approach and Management of Rhombencephalitis: Literature Review. Clin Neurol Neurosci. 2017;1(2):47-51. doi: 10.11648/j.cnn.20170102.15

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