Tag J. Keith Smith

Inflammation of the Spinal Cord

Noninfectious inflammatory spinal cord lesions include multiple sclerosis (MS), acute transverse myelitis (ATM), neuromyelitis optica (NMO), neurosarcoidosis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Except for MS, these entities are rare. The disease etiologies are incompletely understood but seem to involve immune system…