" Alice in Wonderland syndrome” associated with respiratory infection due toMycoplasma pneumoniae in an 8-year-old child

The favorable evolution of an 8-year-old boy with respiratory infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae is presented, whose symptomatic expression was characterized by distortions of the visual perception of the body schema (own and foreign) and of objects in the environment in short cycles and with full a...

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Autor principal: Orschanski, Enrique
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Asociación de Medicina del Estrés y Psicoinmunoneuroendocrinología 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/pinelatam/article/view/43619
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Sumario:The favorable evolution of an 8-year-old boy with respiratory infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae is presented, whose symptomatic expression was characterized by distortions of the visual perception of the body schema (own and foreign) and of objects in the environment in short cycles and with full awareness of the reality of them. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and its probable causes are analyzed as an uncommon situation in childhood in the PINE context.