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Case Reports
. 2020 Nov:112:5-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.07.017. Epub 2020 Jul 29.

Transverse Myelitis in a Child With COVID-19

Harsheen Kaur  1 , John Alan Mason  1 , Manish Bajracharya  1 , John McGee  1 , Matthew D Gunderson  1 , Blaine L Hart  1 , Walter Dehority  1 , Nathaniel Link  1 , Brian Moore  1 , John P Phillips  1 , Danny Rogers  2
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Case Reports

Transverse Myelitis in a Child With COVID-19

Harsheen Kaur et al. Pediatr Neurol. 2020 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Pediatrics; Postinfectious demyelination; SARS-CoV-2; Transverse myelitis.

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Representative sections from sagittal T2 short tau inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical spine on day 1 (A) and day 5 (B) of admission. There is a longitudinally extensive T2-hyperintense lesion extending throughout the entire cervical spine and into the medulla.
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