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paraplegia
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paraplegia

Paralysis of the lower limbs, involving loss of both movement and sensation; it is usually due to spinal injury.



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The 61-year-old, whose hereditary paraparesis means he does not have the use of his legs, said while he was panicked by the fire he remains grateful to his mystery Samaritan.
7,13-15 Paraparesis or paraplegia secondary to cord ischaemia can occur during correction of thoracic spinal deformities involving bilateral disruption of segmental vascularity,7,16 as the cord is supplied by both anterior and posterior spinal arteries, though the incidence was less than 1%.
The final diagnosis was meningoencephalitis with acute flaccid paralysis due to WNV infection with right upper limb paraparesis and muscular atrophy as sequelae (online Appendix Figure, available from www.
 
 
 
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