Acute transverse myelitis

Treatment of Pediatric Neurologic Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 445-451

  Kerr, Douglas ^a   Krishnan, Chitra ^a   Pidcock, Frank S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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