[Parainfectious transverse myelitis in an adolescent. Difficulties in the etiological diagnosis].
A diagnostic process in a 13 year-old boy with a parainfectious transverse myelitis is described. Its onset was acute, with L1-location level of lesion. After a mild improvement, a relapse happened 26 days later, with a D6 level and without subsequent recovery. It has not been found criteria for diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, nor data suggesting a vascular or ischaemic anomaly. Likewise, other causes and specific infections were rejected, being cataloguet as parainfectious etiology, due a previous viral infection before its onset.
Vidal
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Unitat Neurologia Infantil, Hospital de Terrassa, Terrassa.
Uriz
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S
Ledesma
L
L
Quintana
M
M
Martínez
A
A
López
R
R
Sáenz
A
A
Curià
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X
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009188:Myelitis, Transverse / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000503:physiopathology
Mielitis transversa parainfecciosa en un adolescente. Dificultades para el diagnóstico etiológico.