Lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis

We describe a young patient of acute transverse myelitis (ATM) who developed true lower motor neuron (LMN) type flaccid paraplegia as a result of anterior horn cell damage in the region of cord inflammation that extended from conus upwards up to the D4 transverse level. We infer that flaccidity in a...

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Autores principales: Pradhan, Sunil, Kumar, Ajit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Images in Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25221410
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.138525
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description We describe a young patient of acute transverse myelitis (ATM) who developed true lower motor neuron (LMN) type flaccid paraplegia as a result of anterior horn cell damage in the region of cord inflammation that extended from conus upwards up to the D4 transverse level. We infer that flaccidity in acute phase of ATM is not always due to spinal shock and may represent true LMN paralysis particularly if the long segment myelits is severe and extending up to last spinal segment.
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spelling pubmed-41620272014-09-14 Lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis Pradhan, Sunil Kumar, Ajit Ann Indian Acad Neurol Images in Neurology We describe a young patient of acute transverse myelitis (ATM) who developed true lower motor neuron (LMN) type flaccid paraplegia as a result of anterior horn cell damage in the region of cord inflammation that extended from conus upwards up to the D4 transverse level. We infer that flaccidity in acute phase of ATM is not always due to spinal shock and may represent true LMN paralysis particularly if the long segment myelits is severe and extending up to last spinal segment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4162027/ /pubmed/25221410 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.138525 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology 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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Lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis
title Lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis
title_full Lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis
title_fullStr Lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis
title_full_unstemmed Lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis
title_short Lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis
title_sort lower motor neuron paralysis with extensive cord atrophy in parainfectious acute transverse myelitis
topic Images in Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25221410
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.138525
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