Acute Paraplegia in a Toddler: A Diagnostic Journey Compounding the Challenge in Management: A Case Report

Spinal tuberculosis is not common in the paediatric age group. Initial clinical features are often vague and non specific until the disease progresses to later stages. We highlight the diagnostic difficulties and management challenges of a complicated extradural tuberculoma with neurological deficit...

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Autores principales: Goh, JH, Fazir, M, Zainal-Abidin, NA, Amir, D, Singh, M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435564
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1607.012
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author Goh, JH
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Singh, M
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spelling pubmed-53336632017-04-21 Acute Paraplegia in a Toddler: A Diagnostic Journey Compounding the Challenge in Management: A Case Report Goh, JH Fazir, M Zainal-Abidin, NA Amir, D Singh, M Malays Orthop J Case Report Spinal tuberculosis is not common in the paediatric age group. Initial clinical features are often vague and non specific until the disease progresses to later stages. We highlight the diagnostic difficulties and management challenges of a complicated extradural tuberculoma with neurological deficits in a very young girl. Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2016-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5333663/ /pubmed/28435564 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1607.012 Text en © 2016 Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA). All Rights Reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Goh, JH
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Zainal-Abidin, NA
Amir, D
Singh, M
Acute Paraplegia in a Toddler: A Diagnostic Journey Compounding the Challenge in Management: A Case Report
title Acute Paraplegia in a Toddler: A Diagnostic Journey Compounding the Challenge in Management: A Case Report
title_full Acute Paraplegia in a Toddler: A Diagnostic Journey Compounding the Challenge in Management: A Case Report
title_fullStr Acute Paraplegia in a Toddler: A Diagnostic Journey Compounding the Challenge in Management: A Case Report
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title_short Acute Paraplegia in a Toddler: A Diagnostic Journey Compounding the Challenge in Management: A Case Report
title_sort acute paraplegia in a toddler: a diagnostic journey compounding the challenge in management: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435564
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1607.012
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