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Complete Recovery of Thoracic Myelopathy after Eleven Months of Paraplegia: A Case Report

Manmohan S 1 , Nor Azlin ZA 1 , Fazir M 1 , Dzulkarnain A 1 , Goh JH 1

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  • 1 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Malays Orthop J, 2015 Mar;9(1):32-34.
PMID: 28435594 MyJurnal DOI: 10.5704/MOJ.1503.004

Abstract

Instances of neurological recovery after early decompression of the spine in non-traumatic spinal cord compression are well documented. We present a patient with paraplegia of 11 months' duration due to atypical spinal tuberculosis who showed complete neurological recovery in three months.

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