Catalog
Subacute necrotising myelitis
Link to WHO Definition
Subacute necrotising myelitis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/937824238
Foix-Alajouanine syndrome, also called subacute ascending necrotising myelitis, results from chronic congestion of the extrinsic pial veins of the spinal cord and of the intrinsic subpial network. It is characterised by progressive ascending deficit over a period of several months or years.