Book chapter
Neurobiology of Transverse Myelitis and Infectious Myelopathies
Neurobiology of Disease
Oxford University Press
08/01/2016
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199937837.003.0153
Abstract
Infectious agents cause spinal cord pathology by three different mechanisms: direct invasion/infection of neural tissues (i.e., infective myelitis), secondary inflammation and tissue bystander damage with or without autoimmune pathogenesis (parainfectious myelitis), or involvement of extraaxial structures (including the piaarachnoid, the dura, the epidural space, or the adjacent spinal bones or intervertebral discs), resulting in compressive or ischemic myelopathy. This chapter describes the pathogenesis and treatment of these disorders.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neurobiology of Transverse Myelitis and Infectious Myelopathies
- Creators
- Ivana VodopivecTracey A Cho
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Neurobiology of Disease
- DOI
- 10.1093/med/9780199937837.003.0153
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Alternative title
- Section X Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984071732202771
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