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Spinal Cord
; 39(12): 662-3, 2001 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11781865
ABSTRACT
STUDY DESIGN: A case report. SETTING: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Reuth Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. METHOD: Summary of the clinical course during in-patient and out-patient treatment of a patient with West Nile Virus Myelitis. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: A healthy young woman, whose medical history revealed only a benign Duane syndrome and a few months' duration of bipolar disorder, contracted encephalo-myelitis due to a West Nile Virus infection. Although she recovered remarkably after long-term rehabilitation treatments, some weakness and pain remained.