Poliomyelitis-like illness after acute asthma.
Two children had pain in one arm, followed by weakness and wasting, after an acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma. Similar cases in which a poliomyelitis-like illness was associated with acute asthma have been reported, but the relationship between the two remains conjectural.
D001132:Arm; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000209:etiology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*