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Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is a disorder of the spinal region of the central nervous system. In the present case, the clinical course showed ATM associated with mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) and little recovery; the girl was left with a flaccid paraplegia, and thus differed from other cases in the literature which all reported complete or nearcomplete recovery.
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Heller, L., Keren, O., Mendelson, L. et al. Transverse myelitis associated with mycoplasma pneumoniae: case report. Spinal Cord 28, 522–525 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1990.69
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