Complete Recovery of Thoracic Myelopathy after Eleven Months of Paraplegia: A Case Report

Instances of neurological recovery after early decompression of the spine in non-traumatic spinal cord compression are well documented. We present a patient with paraplegia of 11 months’ duration due to atypical spinal tuberculosis who showed complete neurological recovery in three months.

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Autores principales: Manmohan, S, Nor Azlin, ZA, Fazir, M, Dzulkarnain, A, Goh, JH
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28435594
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1503.004
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spelling pubmed-53493462017-04-21 Complete Recovery of Thoracic Myelopathy after Eleven Months of Paraplegia: A Case Report Manmohan, S Nor Azlin, ZA Fazir, M Dzulkarnain, A Goh, JH Malays Orthop J Case Report Instances of neurological recovery after early decompression of the spine in non-traumatic spinal cord compression are well documented. We present a patient with paraplegia of 11 months’ duration due to atypical spinal tuberculosis who showed complete neurological recovery in three months. Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2015-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5349346/ /pubmed/28435594 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1503.004 Text en © 2015 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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Complete Recovery of Thoracic Myelopathy after Eleven Months of Paraplegia: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349346/
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