Mumps Complicated by a Preceding Myelitis

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WHEN McKaig and Woltman,1 of the Mayo Clinic, published their review of neurologic complications of mumps in 1934, they reported a case of transverse myelitis in a sixteen-year-old girl who was left with a complete flaccid atrophie paralysis below the second thoracic segment. Her spinal fluid, incidentally, showed no increase in cells in two tests during her illness. The authors found a similar case of mumps myelitis in the literature in a girl one year older. Wesselhoeft2 cites these 2 cases and adds a case of myelitis with recovery from the French literature. Bobeff and Petroff,3 of Sofia University, Bulgaria, . . .

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