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Published in: Child's Nervous System 1/2018

01-01-2018 | Focus Session

Imaging findings in congenital Zika virus infection syndrome: an update

Authors: Andrea Silveira de Souza, Patrícia Soares de Oliveira-Szjenfeld, Adriana Suely de Oliveira Melo, Luis Alberto Moreira de Souza, Alba Gean Medeiros Batista, Fernanda Tovar-Moll

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 1/2018

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Abstract

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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Metadata
Title
Imaging findings in congenital Zika virus infection syndrome: an update
Authors
Andrea Silveira de Souza
Patrícia Soares de Oliveira-Szjenfeld
Adriana Suely de Oliveira Melo
Luis Alberto Moreira de Souza
Alba Gean Medeiros Batista
Fernanda Tovar-Moll
Publication date
01-01-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-017-3637-1

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