Mollaret Cells in Recurrent Benign Lymphocytic Meningitis

Recurrent benign lymphocytic meningitis.

Recurrent benign lymphocytic meningitis is a recurring, typically innocuous, painful form of aseptic meningitis. This syndrome is associated with transient neurological symptoms in one-half of afflicted patients. The causative agent is usually herpes simplex virus type 2, which can be confirmed by detection of viral DNA in the cerebrospinal fluid using polymerase chain reaction. Clinical diseas...

Benign Lymphocytic Meningitis: (Acute Aseptic Meningitis)

Recurrent herpes simplex type 2 virus (Mollaret) meningitis.

Mollaret meningitis is a rare form of meningitis that is recurrent, aseptic, mild, and self-limiting. When initially described by Mollaret, this form of aseptic meningitis had no identifiable infecting agent. New sophisticated diagnostic tools have now identified Herpes simplex type 2 virus as the most commonly isolated agent. The case presented in this article is of a patient with a history of...

Mollaret meningitis: a case report.

Mollaret meningitis is characterized by three or more episodes of benign recurrent aseptic meningitis in which symptoms and signs resolve spontaneously within two to five days. Severe headache with an acute onset, fever and meningismus are the main clinical features. We report a case of Mollaret meningitis in a seven-year-old girl who presented with four aseptic meningitis episodes in one year.

The significance of proplasmocytes and atypical plasma cells in the benign lymphocytic meningitis syndrome.

By PETER WOLF I N THE DIFFERENTIATION of tuberculous memsimigitis from other forms of lymphocytic meningitis, difficulty may arise svheti tubercle bacilli are not initially found its films of cerebrospimsal fluid (C.S.F.) deposit, amid this is accemstuated whets a low C.S.F. sugar is found. The clinical history is often of iso help. Thus, since the early diagnosis is important for appropriate t...