A case of transverse myelitis following T.A.B. inoculation.

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  • T P MCKELVEY
چکیده

NEUROLOGICAL complications following T.A.B. vaccination are rare. Miller (1954) has recently reviewed neurological sequela: of prophylactic inoculation. He has summarized 49 neurological syndromes following use of T.A.B. vaccine from the literature, to which he has added one case of his own. He includes one case of transverse myelitis, reported by Lemke (1943) .. In view of this. rarity, a case is reported here in which a transverse myelitis of the cervical spinal cord occurred in a National Service soldier, beginning fifteen days after his receiving a second injection of T .A.B. vaccine.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

دوره 101 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1955