Idiopathic Central Pontine and Extrapontine Myelinolysis in a Child

The objective of this study was to report a case of central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis in a child, a rare neurological disorder. A diagnosis of demyelination carries important therapeutic and prognostic implications. In most cases, the diagnosis is made clinically and confirmed radiologic...

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Autores principales: Kamath, Madhav, Manjunath, Sneha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6712911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516629
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_158_18
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description The objective of this study was to report a case of central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis in a child, a rare neurological disorder. A diagnosis of demyelination carries important therapeutic and prognostic implications. In most cases, the diagnosis is made clinically and confirmed radiologically. Treatment should be initiated sincerely as severe cases have a dismal prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-67129112019-09-12 Idiopathic Central Pontine and Extrapontine Myelinolysis in a Child Kamath, Madhav Manjunath, Sneha J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report The objective of this study was to report a case of central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis in a child, a rare neurological disorder. A diagnosis of demyelination carries important therapeutic and prognostic implications. In most cases, the diagnosis is made clinically and confirmed radiologically. Treatment should be initiated sincerely as severe cases have a dismal prognosis. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6712911/ /pubmed/31516629 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_158_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Idiopathic Central Pontine and Extrapontine Myelinolysis in a Child
title_full Idiopathic Central Pontine and Extrapontine Myelinolysis in a Child
title_fullStr Idiopathic Central Pontine and Extrapontine Myelinolysis in a Child
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title_short Idiopathic Central Pontine and Extrapontine Myelinolysis in a Child
title_sort idiopathic central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis in a child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6712911/
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