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Infections of the Spinal Cord

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Infectious agents affecting the spinal cord were discussed in a prior chapter, so they will be touched on lightly here. Infectious myelitis must be distinguished from ADEM. Infectious myelitis involves direct microbial infection with tissue injury caused by the infecting agent or by the host immune response. ADEM occurs only due to the immune response in the post-infectious period.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, **anyang, China

    Chenglong Ren

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  1. Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

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  2. Department of Radiology, Bei**g You’an Hospital, Capital Medical University, Bei**g, China

    Hongjun Li

  3. Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Meng Law

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Ren, C. (2019). Infections of the Spinal Cord. In: Gao, B., Li, H., Law, M. (eds) Imaging of CNS Infections and Neuroimmunology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6904-9_12

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