Acute transverse myelitis and brainstem encephalitis associated with hepatitis A infection.

Pediatr Neurol

Department of Pediatrics (Neurology), Park Nicollet Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA.

Published: February 1995

A 4-year-old boy became paraplegic during the course of hepatitis A infection. There were significant magnetic resonance imaging changes in the cervical spinal cord and brainstem. The patient's cervical myelopathy resolved entirely after 10 weeks.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0887-8994(94)00153-sDOI Listing

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