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12 AIDS patients with a clinically,electrophysiologically,and pathologically homogeneous painful peripheral neuropathy had a significantly higher rate of any or active clinical cytomegalovirus(CMV) infection than did a group of 30 AIDS controls.In 9 patients this syndrome began in close temporal association with clinical infection with CMV. Painful peripheral neuropathy in AIDS may be caused by a CMV dorsal root ganglionitis. |
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