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113 patients admitted to the Willard Parker Hospital in New York in 1931 with a diagnosis of poliomyelitis…
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Highlights potential misdiagnosis in acute flaccid paralysis; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before changing practice.
A notable proportion of patients admitted with acute poliomyelitis are misdiagnosed, emphasizing the need for improved diagnostic accuracy and careful clinical and laboratory investigation.
M. Bernard Brahdy (1934) studied this question.
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