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Prompt and accurate diagnosis of tick paralysis is crucial in children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis, as it is a reversible but potentially fatal condition.
Highlights the importance of considering tick paralysis in the differential diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis in children to ensure prompt and effective treatment.
In this issue of the Journal, Felz and colleagues describe a six-year-old child with reversible, but potentially fatal, tick paralysis that was initially thought to be the Guillain–Barré syndrome.1 A suspicious house officer correctly diagnosed the tick paralysis. Since the virtual elimination of poliomyelitis in North America, acute flaccid paralysis in children has become uncommon. Accurate and prompt diagnosis is still a formidable problem, but effective and specific remedies are now available for most causative conditions, if they are identified promptly. In the United States, acute flaccid paralysis in children 3 to 12 years old is often presumed, even by . . .
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Schaumburg et al. (2000) conducted an editorial in Tick paralysis (n=1). Prompt and accurate diagnosis of tick paralysis is crucial in children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis, as it is a reversible but potentially fatal condition.
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