Gardasil: visual loss associated with chiasmal neuritis and tumefactive demyelinating lesion

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A 16-Year-Old Girl With Bilateral

Visual Loss and Left Hemiparesis Following an Immunization Against Human

Papilloma Virus

Francis J. Di, Jr, MD

Departments of Pediatrics1 at Connecticut Children's Medical Center,

Hartford, Connecticut,

fdimari@...,

University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut

Mirna Hajjar, MD

Department of Neurology at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut

Ciesielski, MD

Department of Pathology at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut

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.

Key Words: demyelination • tumefactive • blindness • chiasm •

HPV

Journal of Child Neurology,

Vol. 25, No. 3, 321-327 (2010)

DOI: 10.1177/0883073809349322

http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/25/3/321

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