Clinical Reasoning: A 14-year-old boy with acute weakness, paresthesias, and headache

Neurology. 2020 Sep 1;95(9):e1285-e1289. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010088. Epub 2020 Jul 29.

Authors

Ronald R Seese¹, Daniel Guillen², Jenna M Gaesser², Hoda Z Abdel-Hamid²

Affiliations

¹ From the Division of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA. ronald.seese@chp.edu.
² From the Division of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA.

PMID: 32727839
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010088

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Administration, Intravenous
Adolescent
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Brain / diagnostic imaging*
Ceftriaxone / therapeutic use
Central Nervous System Viral Diseases / diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Diarrhea
Flushing / physiopathology
Guillain-Barre Syndrome / diagnosis
Headache / physiopathology
Humans
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / therapeutic use
Immunologic Factors / therapeutic use
Irritable Mood
Lyme Neuroborreliosis / cerebrospinal fluid
Lyme Neuroborreliosis / diagnosis*
Lyme Neuroborreliosis / physiopathology
Lyme Neuroborreliosis / therapy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Meningitis, Bacterial / cerebrospinal fluid
Meningitis, Bacterial / diagnosis*
Meningitis, Bacterial / physiopathology
Meningitis, Bacterial / therapy
Myelitis / cerebrospinal fluid
Myelitis / diagnosis*
Myelitis / physiopathology
Myelitis / therapy
Neck Pain / physiopathology
Paresthesia / physiopathology
Peroneal Neuropathies / physiopathology
Pneumonia, Bacterial
Reflex, Abnormal
Spinal Cord / diagnostic imaging*
Sweating
Urinary Retention / physiopathology
West Nile Fever / diagnosis

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
Immunologic Factors
Ceftriaxone