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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.
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