However, T2-weighted images show ADEM lesions that are more pronounced with poorly defined margins in deep white matter and periventricular sparing. If the spinal cord is involved it will show ...
According to Boston Children's Hospital, ADEM 'involves a brief but intense attack of inflammation (swelling) in the brain and spinal cord that damages the brain's myelin.' Myelin, also called ...
When the family took him to the hospital for treatment, he was diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalitis (ADEM), a rare disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. Fort Jackson Housing ...
an incomplete sensory spinal cord syndrome at the T4 level, and gait ataxia. Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM) was suspected on the basis of the initial diagnostic work-up, which ...