Acute Transverse and Flaccid Myelitis in Children
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Acute transverse myelitis in children.
A case of Acute Transverse Myelitis (ATM) is presented. ATM is a rare disease in childhood. The diagnosis stems from the clinical presentation, cerebrospinal fluid findings, appearance of the spinal cord on imaging and ruling out differential diagnoses like Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) and Poliomyelitis. The proposed treatment is intravenous (IV) methyl prednisolone with variable chances of re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Treatment Options in Neurology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1092-8480,1534-3138
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-019-0603-0