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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in children: clinical features and HLA-DR linkage.
European journal of neurology - 1 Sept 2003
Idrissova Zh R, Boldyreva M N, Dekonenko E P, Malishev N A, Leontyeva I Y, Martinenko I N, Petrukhin A S
Abstract excerpt
This study includes 90 children (41 female and 49 male) in the age range of 2-16 years with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Thirty-three patients developed ADEM following rubella infection, 26 children following varicella infection, 20 suspected viral aetiology ADEM and 11 multiphasic disseminated encephalomyelitis (MDEM). All patients had neurological, routine laboratory and viral serology study...
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