Journal
NEURORADIOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 124-127Publisher
SPRINGER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s002340050030
Keywords
Enterovirus 71; hand-foot-mouth disease; herpangina; myelitis
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We report two boys diagnosed as having herpangina and hand-foot-mouth disease complicated by monoplegia during the outbreak enterovirus infection in Taiwan in 1998. Enterovirus 71 was identified in the stool and throat swab; neither polio nor Coxsackie viruses was identified. MRI showed unilateral lesions in the anterior horns of the spinal cord at T11-12 and C2-5. Although the MRI findings and sites of these lesions were similar to those of poliovirus-associated poliomyelitis, the virological data indicated that these boys were infected with enterovirus type 71.
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