Rabies encephalomyelitis vs. ADEM: Usefulness of MR imaging in differential diagnosis

We report a case of rabies encephalomyelitis in a 12-year-old boy who had received anti-rabies vaccine 6 weeks after being bitten by a puppy. The MR (magnetic resonance) imaging helped to differentiate rabies from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). ADEM involves the white matter predominan...

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Autores principales: Santhoshkumar, Asokan, Kalpana, Devadathan, Sowrabha, Rajanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23248695
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.102578
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description We report a case of rabies encephalomyelitis in a 12-year-old boy who had received anti-rabies vaccine 6 weeks after being bitten by a puppy. The MR (magnetic resonance) imaging helped to differentiate rabies from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). ADEM involves the white matter predominantly, whereas rabies has a predilection for grey matter, that too of midline regions. This report emphasizes the usefulness of MRI in differentiating rabies and ADEM when encephalomyelitis occurs in a vaccinated child.
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spelling pubmed-35190732012-12-17 Rabies encephalomyelitis vs. ADEM: Usefulness of MR imaging in differential diagnosis Santhoshkumar, Asokan Kalpana, Devadathan Sowrabha, Rajanna J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report We report a case of rabies encephalomyelitis in a 12-year-old boy who had received anti-rabies vaccine 6 weeks after being bitten by a puppy. The MR (magnetic resonance) imaging helped to differentiate rabies from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). ADEM involves the white matter predominantly, whereas rabies has a predilection for grey matter, that too of midline regions. This report emphasizes the usefulness of MRI in differentiating rabies and ADEM when encephalomyelitis occurs in a vaccinated child. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3519073/ /pubmed/23248695 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.102578 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rabies encephalomyelitis vs. ADEM: Usefulness of MR imaging in differential diagnosis
title Rabies encephalomyelitis vs. ADEM: Usefulness of MR imaging in differential diagnosis
title_full Rabies encephalomyelitis vs. ADEM: Usefulness of MR imaging in differential diagnosis
title_fullStr Rabies encephalomyelitis vs. ADEM: Usefulness of MR imaging in differential diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Rabies encephalomyelitis vs. ADEM: Usefulness of MR imaging in differential diagnosis
title_short Rabies encephalomyelitis vs. ADEM: Usefulness of MR imaging in differential diagnosis
title_sort rabies encephalomyelitis vs. adem: usefulness of mr imaging in differential diagnosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3519073/
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