Successful treatment of paraneoplastic longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM): A 16-month clinical-spinal MRI follow-up

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العنوان: Successful treatment of paraneoplastic longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM): A 16-month clinical-spinal MRI follow-up
المؤلفون: Jelena Drulovic, Jovana Ivanovic, Sarlota Mesaros
المصدر: Multiple sclerosis and related disorders. 26
سنة النشر: 2018
مصطلحات موضوعية: Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Spinal mri, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Adenocarcinoma, Myelitis, Transverse, Malignancy, Transverse myelitis, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Adrenal Cortex Hormones, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Cervix, Plasma Exchange, business.industry, Multiple sclerosis, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Spinal cord, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3. Good health, Conus medullaris, medicine.anatomical_structure, Neurology, Female, Neurology (clinical), Radiology, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Follow-Up Studies
الوصف: Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) is defined as a spinal cord lesion that extends over three or more vertebrae. LETM very rarely occurs in patients with the systemic malignancy. We report a 38-year old woman with adenocarcinoma of the cervix and LETM. Cervical and thoracic spine MRI showed hyperintense signal on T2W involving predominantly central spinal cord from the C4 level distally, including conus medullaris. In this patient corticosteroid therapy and therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) courses were performed. On discharge, five weeks after TPE initiation, patient could walk with bilateral assistance. After a 16-month follow-up, her neurological finding was almost normal and MRI lesions disappeared. Thus, we present our patient as one of the rare cases of paraneoplastic LETM with excellent treatment response.
تدمد: 2211-0356
الوصول الحر: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::efb121ec582a3826d059e48f7c15f54dTest
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30268997Test
حقوق: CLOSED
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....efb121ec582a3826d059e48f7c15f54d
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE