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Acute nontraumatic myelopathies
1Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Neurologic Clinics
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
Acute myelopathies (acute transverse myelopathies) can be divided into two major groups. Vascular myelopathies are caused by aortic disease, surgery, or intrinsic vascular disease of cord vessels. Inflammatory/demyelinative myelopathies include lupus erythematosus, various viral infections, and primary demyelinating disease. Criteria for diagnostic decisions and recent data from magnetic resonance imaging are reviewed.