Open AccessMielitis flácida aguda e infeccion por enterovirus: una enfermedad grave emergente
Author(s) -
Raúl Bustos B,
Franco Díaz,
Camila Cores,
Francisca Castro Z.,
Pablo Cruces
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
andes pediatrica
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2452-6053
pISSN - 2452-6045
DOI - 10.32641/andespediatr.v93i4.4137
Subject(s) - medicine , humanities , gynecology , philosophy
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a neuroinflammatory disease characterized by acute asymmetric weakness of the limbs associated with lesions of the gray matter of the spinal cord. It mainly affects children and has been increasingly identified since 2014.