Acute paraplegia with vanishing white matter lesions.
Young adults presenting with an acute myelopathy often represent a diagnostic challenge. We present the case of a 20-year-old man who demonstrated many of the diagnostic issues involved in the evaluation of this syndrome.
Jensen
Rikke M
RM
Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Kinkel
R Philip
RP
D000208:Acute Disease; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004673:Encephalomyelitis, Acute Disseminated / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000473:pathology; D009188:Myelitis, Transverse / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D009471:Neuromyelitis Optica / Q000473:pathology*; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D055815:Young Adult