• Am J Emerg Med · Oct 2017

    Case Reports

    Acute upper extremity flaccid paralysis in a 5year old child secondary to enterovirus infection.

    • Upma Suneja, Carlos Castillo, Abiezer Disla, Cihangir Buyukgoz, Liliana Burdea, Yekaterina Sitnitskaya, Samuel Agyare, Menachem Gold, and Sergey Prokhorov.
    • Children Hospital at OU Medical Center, Oklahoma, United States. Electronic address: upma-suneja@ouhsc.edu.
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Oct 1; 35 (10): 1586.e1-1586.e2.

    AbstractThe incidence of acute flaccid paralysis has been on a declining trend with the global efforts on eradication of polio virus. A few scattered clusters of acute flaccid paralysis associated with pathogens like enterovirus other than polio virus and flaviviruses have recently come to limelight. This is a case of acute onset flaccid paralysis of left upper extremity in a fully immunized 5 year old child in New York.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…