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A 17 year-old girl with a demyelinating disease requiring mechanical ventilation: a case report

BACKGROUND: Demyelinating diseases cause destruction of the myelin sheath, while axons are relatively spared. Pathologically, demyelination can be the result of an inflammatory process, viral infection, acquired metabolic derangement and ischemic insult. Three diseases that can cause inflammatory de...

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Autores principales: Katsenos, Chrysostomos, Androulaki, Despoina, Lyra, Stavroula, Tsoutsouras, Theodoros, Mandragos, Costas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23331922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-22