Emergency department presentations of transverse myelitis: Two case reports

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 256-259

  Hammerstedt, Heather S ^a   Edlow, Jonathan A ^a,b   Cusick, Seric ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DIAZEPAM; GANCICLOVIR; IBUPROFEN; MORPHINE; STEROID;

ADULT; AREFLEXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MONONUCLEOSIS; MUSCLE ATONIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RASH; RIGIDITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SORE THROAT; VISUAL DISORDER; X RAY FILM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACK PAIN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24044526894     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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