¡®Noteomielite?accompanied by acute amaurosis (1844).: An early case of neuromyelitis optica

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• 作者：S. Jarius ; ^{sven.jarius@med.uni-heidelberg.de} ; B. Wildemann
• 关键词：Neuromyelitis optica (Devic's syndrome) ; Acute myelitis ; Optic neuritis ; Multiple sclerosis ; History of medicine
• 刊名：Journal of the Neurological Sciences
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：15 February 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：313
• 期：1-2
• 页码：182-184
• 全文大小：136 K

文摘

So far, only very little is known about the early history of neuromyelitis optica (Devic's syndrome). Here, we discuss a then widely recognized but now forgotten 1844 report by the Genoese physician Giovanni Battista Pescetto (1806-1884) on a 42-year-old man, who simultaneously developed acute amaurosis and cervical myelitis. Pescetto's report represents the earliest account of a case of neuromyelitis optica in the Western literature known so far.