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It is considered the differential variational inequality \[ -\dot{x}(t)\in N_{K(t)}(x(t)) + F(t,x(t)),\quad x(0)=x_{0}, \tag{1} \] where \(N_{K(t)}(x(t))\) denotes the normal cone to the closed and convex set \(K(t)\) at the point \(x(t),\) \( x\in \mathbb{R}^n, t\in [0, b], b>0,\) \(F(t,x)\) is a multifunction. A study is made of the existence of extremal solutions, i.e. trajectories which move through the extreme points of the orientor field \(F(t,x).\) It is shown that these extremal trajectories are in fact dense in the set of trajectories of the original systems. It is examined the topological structure of the solution set to (1) and the authors show that under certain hypotheses on the orientor field, the solution set is path-connected. It is viewed the solution set as a multifunction of the initial condition and for that multifunction is constructed a continuous selector. Then that selector is used to prove the existence of periodic trajectories.