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Cerebral infarct in children aged zero to fifteen years
Noce,Thelma Ribeiro; Fábio,Soraia Ramos Cabete; Siqueira Neto,José Ibiapina; Santos,Antônio Carlos dos; Funayama,Carolina Araújo RodriguesCerebral infarcts in children present peculiar characteristics either due to their diversity of causes or due to the unknown nature of the causes. The etiologies of cerebral infarct were reviewed in children from zero to 15 years old, attended at a tertiary hospital, in Ribeirão Preto (Brazil), from 1990 to 1997, adopting the modified Trial of ORG 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) criteria of classificati...
Early-onset acute transverse myelitis following hepatitis B vaccination and res...
Fonseca,Luiz Fernando; Noce,Thelma Ribeiro; Teixeira,Maria Letícia Gambogi; Teixeira Jr,Antônio Lúcio; Lana-Peixoto,Marco AurélioAcute transverse myelitis is an acute inflammatory process of the spinal cord and it is a rare clinical syndrome in childhood. In this paper, we report a case of 3 years-old boy who developed acute onset tetraparesia following a viral respiratory infecction and hepatitis B vaccination. Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord disclosed signal-intensity abnormalities from C4 to C3. A diagnosis of acute tran...