| A Case of Acute Idiopathic Longitudinal Myelitis Showing Rapid Improvement to Steroid Therapy |
| Sung Won Kang, Jin Sung Cheong, Hyun Gu Kang, Ju Li Jeong, Soo Sung Kim, Sun Jung Han, Sung Ik Lee, Hyun Duk Yang, and Il Hong Son |
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| Copyright © 2009 The Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology |
| This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Acute longitudinal myelitis is a group of disorder characterized by multifocal, long-segmented inflammation of the spinal cord, rapidly evolving paraparesis, a sensory level on the trunk, and bilateral Babinski signs. We report a case of 30-year-old man with longitudinal myelitis extending to long segment of spinal cord. After 15 days of aggressive treatment with intravenous pulsed methylprednisolone for 5 days, motor and sensory functions of the lower extremities were almost recovered. |
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Longitudinal myelitis |
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