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Acute myelopathy with normal imaging
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Acute myelopathy with normal imaging

Neil R Holland
Journal of child neurology, v 28(5), pp 648-650
May 2013
PMID: 22752484
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https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3695723View
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Abstract

Adolescent Cartilage Diseases Cervical Vertebrae - pathology Contrast Media - administration & dosage Diagnosis, Differential Embolism Female Guillain-Barre Syndrome - diagnosis Humans Image Enhancement Infarction - diagnosis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Myelitis, Transverse - diagnosis Neurologic Examination Quadriplegia - diagnosis Respiratory Insufficiency - diagnosis Spinal Cord - blood supply Spinal Cord - pathology Spinal Cord Diseases - diagnosis Thoracic Vertebrae - pathology
A 17-year-old girl presented with rapidly progressive quadriparesis and ventilatory failure. The clinical findings indicated a spinal level, but the diagnosis of myelopathy was not supported by her initial spinal imaging and cerebrospinal fluid studies. She had completed treatment for Guillain-Barré syndrome before a follow-up spinal imaging study showed interval expansion and enhancement of the cervical cord.

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