[Intracerebral calcification in a patient with late-onset congenital rubella].

A fourteen-week-old boy is described who was admitted with failure to thrive and an interstitial pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii infection. A late onset congenital rubella infection was diagnosed in combination with an immunodeficiency. The congenital rubella infection induced a chronic meningoencephalitis. Further investigations revealed intracerebral calcifications on computerized tomography of the skull. The clinical symptoms of early and late onset congenital rubella syndrome are described. The differential diagnosis of intracerebral calcifications are shortly reviewed.