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The authors report about a 43-year-old male patient, who suffered from an acute toxic brain injury. Twelve days prior to death, after sealing his floor, he experienced progressively increasing headache without fever; the CSF examination disclosed marked eosinophilia. The clinical and pathomorphological features of his illness are discussed and together with the various possible etiologies of eosinophilia in the CSF.
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Berichtet wird über eine akute toxische Schädigung des Gehirns bei einem 43-jährigen Patienten, der 12 Tage vor seinem Tode, nach dem Versiegeln seines Bodens an starken Kopfschmerzen ohne Fieber erkrankte und eine extreme Eosinophilie im Liquor cerebrospinalis zeigte. Eine Übersicht über die mannigfaltige Ätiologie der Liquoreosinophilie wird gegeben.
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Kleinert, R., Kleinert, G., Walter, G.F. et al. Fatale eosinophile meningoencephalitis nach lackintoxikation. Eur Arch Psychiatr Neurol Sci 235, 378–381 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381008
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381008