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

J Child Neurol. 2010 Mar;25(3):321-7. doi: 10.1177/0883073809349322.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain / pathology
  • Demyelinating Diseases / etiology
  • Demyelinating Diseases / pathology
  • Demyelinating Diseases / therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Optic Chiasm / pathology
  • Optic Neuritis / etiology
  • Optic Neuritis / pathology
  • Optic Neuritis / therapy
  • Papillomavirus Vaccines / adverse effects*
  • Paresis / etiology*
  • Paresis / pathology
  • Paresis / therapy
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vaccination
  • Vision Disorders / etiology*
  • Vision Disorders / pathology
  • Vision Disorders / therapy

Substances

  • Papillomavirus Vaccines