Lee Kwang Lae, Lee Ju Kang, Yim Yoon Myung, Lim Oh Kyung, Bae Keun Hwan
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Incheon 405-760, Korea.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 Feb;60(2):237-9. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.09.015. Epub 2007 Nov 7.
We describe a rare case of acute transverse myelitis associated with scrub typhus. Magnetic resonance imaging scans, clinical characteristics, skin biopsy, and cerebrospinal fluid cytology confirmed a diagnosis of acute transverse myelitis associated with scrub typhus. To our knowledge, this was not seen in a prior publication. Our case indicates that Orientia tsutsugamushi can invade spinal cord.
我们描述了一例与恙虫病相关的急性横贯性脊髓炎罕见病例。磁共振成像扫描、临床特征、皮肤活检和脑脊液细胞学检查确诊为与恙虫病相关的急性横贯性脊髓炎。据我们所知，此前尚无相关报道。我们的病例表明恙虫东方体可侵犯脊髓。
