A Case of Recurrent Transverse Myelitis in an Eighty Year Old Woman.
- Author:
Kun Jai LEE
1
;
Sang Jun KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kangwon Univeristy College of Medicine, Gangwon-Do, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Transverse myelitis;
Cerebrospinal fluid;
Recurrence
- MeSH:
Brain;
Cerebrospinal Fluid;
Extremities;
Female;
Humans;
Infarction;
Lower Extremity;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Mesencephalon;
Myelitis, Transverse*;
Recurrence;
Spinal Cord;
Upper Extremity
- From:Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society
2005;9(2):157-160
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
An eighty year old woman was admitted at our hospital diagnosed as a cervical transverse myelitis at a previous hospital. She had a sudden weakness of right upper extremity and left lower extremity 2 months after admission. She received magnetic resonance imaging of brain and spinal cord and cerebrospinal fluid examination and was diagnosed as a recurrent transverse myelitis and midbrain infarction. After a steroid treatment, the weakness of extremities was improved.
