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An Unusual Case of Chronic Relapsing Tetanus Associated with Mandibular Osteomyelitis [PDF]

, 2009
A 55-year-old man underwent radiation therapy due to malignant lymphoma of the neck. Eight years after the therapy he developed tetanus. It appears that the radiation therapy resulted in mandibular necrosis, and that this lesion may have been the ...
Fujimuro, Masahiro, Jackson, Mandy, Kawarabayashi, Takeshi, Kimura, Tamaki, Matsubara, Etsuro, Nakahata, Naoko, Seino, Yusuke, Shirahama, Ikumi, Shoji, Mikio, Suzuki, Chieko, Takamura, Ayumi, Tomiyama, Masahiko, Wakasaya, Yasuhito, Watanabe, Mitsunori, Yamamoto-Watanabe, Yukiko   +14 more
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Antibodies to Enteroviruses in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Acute Flaccid Myelitis. [PDF]

, 2019
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has caused motor paralysis in >560 children in the United States since 2014. The temporal association of enterovirus (EV) outbreaks with increases in AFM cases and reports of fever, respiratory, or gastrointestinal illness
Briese, Thomas, Burns, Jane C, Caciula, Adrian, Garcia, Joel A, Hetzler, Kimbell L, Jain, Komal, Konopka-Anstadt, Jennifer L, Lipkin, W Ian, Marine, Rachel L, Mishra, Nischay, Ng, James, Ng, Terry Fei Fan, Nix, W Allan, Oberste, M Steven, Price, Adam, Routh, Janell A, Thakkar, Riddhi, Thakkar, Roshni, Thakur, Kiran T, Tokarz, Rafal   +19 more
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Spinal Cord Involvement in MS and Other Demyelinating Diseases

Biomedicines, 2020
Diagnostic accuracy is poor in demyelinating myelopathies, and therefore a challenge for neurologists in daily practice, mainly because of the multiple underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in each subtype.
Mariano Marrodan, María I. Gaitán, Jorge Correale   +2 more
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Pathophysiologisch-serologische, bildgebende und klinische Charakteristika der Neuromyelitis Optica [PDF]

, 2019
Hintergrund: Neuromyelitis optica-Spektrum-Erkrankungen (NMOSD) stellen eine Gruppe neuroinflammatorischer Erkrankungen dar, die mit dem klinischen Auftreten von Myelitiden und/oder Optikusneuritiden (ON) einhergeht.
Schumacher, Sophie
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A Case of Atopic Myelitis with Cervical Cavernous Angioma

Case Reports in Medicine, 2017
Atopic myelitis, a type of myelitis which appears in patients with elevated serum levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE), occurs more commonly in the cervical spinal cord, but this mechanism has not yet been elucidated.
Miyuki Fukuda, Hiroaki Manabe, Nobuhiro Sasaki, Masayuki Kuroda, Minoru Hoshimaru, Shigeo Ueda   +5 more
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Clinical and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) profile and CSF criteria for the diagnosis of spinal cord schistosomiasis Aspectos clínicos e liquóricos e critérios para o diagnóstico liquórico de esquistossomose medular

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2003
OBJECTIVES: To describe the clinical and CSF findings among patients with presumptive neuroschistosomiasis (NS) and to suggest a classification for the CSF diagnosis of presumptive NS.
Otávio Augusto Moreno-Carvalho, Cristiana Maria Nascimento-Carvalho, Aroldo Luiz da Silva Bacelar, Antônio de Souza Andrade-Filho, Gersonita Costa, Jandira Bastos Fontes, Telma Assis   +6 more
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Herpes Zoster Radiculomyelitis With Aquaporin-4 Antibodies: A Case Report and Literature Review

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Background: The relationship between varicella-zoster virus (VZV)-associated myelitis and aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin-G (AQP4-IgG) remains unknown.Case Report: We report a case of acute radiculomyelitis with longitudinal extensive hyperintensity signals ...
Hiroto Eguchi, Haruka Takeshige, Sho Nakajima, Masayoshi Kanou, Asuka Nakajima, Atsuto Fuse, Jiro Fukae, Hideto Miwa, Yasushi Shimo   +8 more
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Rituximab monitoring and redosing in pediatric neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVE: To study rituximab in pediatric neuromyelitis optica (NMO)/NMO spectrum disorders (NMOSD) and the relationship between rituximab, B cell repopulation, and relapses in order to improve rituximab monitoring and redosing.
Alper, G, Appleton, R, Banwell, B, Benson, La, Brilot, F, Dale, R. C., Deiva, K, Gorman, Mp, Leventer, Rj, Mohammad, Ss, Nolan, M, Nosadini, M, Ramanathan, S, Riney, Cj, Waldman, At   +14 more
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Angiostrongylosis meningomyelitis without blood eosinophilia

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Angiostrongylus cantonensis and Gnathostoma spinigerum usually cause eosinophilic meningitis with associated peripheral blood eosinophilia. A 44-year-old man developed acute paraplegia with bowel and bladder dysfunction. Spinal magnetic resonance images
Thanyalak Amornpojnimman, Nuttha Sanghan, Nichanan Ekpitakdamrong, Prut Koonalinthip, Sumonthip Leelawai, Pornchai Sathirapanya   +5 more
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis.

Journal of education & teaching in emergency medicine, 2022
Emergency medicine residents and medical students on emergency medicine rotation.Although a somewhat rare disease, acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) can cause death, and for those pediatric patients that survive, less than 10% have full recovery.1 A cluster of cases that resembled polio was first described in California in 2012.2 After 120 cases of the ...
Zappa, Dane, Herman, Linda L
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