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患者一般资料

General information of patients

Case	Gender	Age	Predisposing factor	Course/d	Onset symptom	Temperature	Neurological signs
1	Female	13	Diabetes mellitus	30	Low back pain and lower extremity pain	Normal	Weakness of lower limb and loss of lower limb tendon reflex
2	Female	15	None	180	Right upper limb pain	Normal	Weakness and hypoesthesia in the right upper limb
3	Male	18	Malignancy	7	Low back pain and lower extremity pain	Fever	Local tenderness, hypoesthesia between T10 to L1 and hyperesthesia between L2-L5
4	Female	24	Long term use of glucocorticoid	7	Low back pain	Fever	Weakness of lower limb, hypoesthesia below T12, hyporeflexiaof lower limb tendon reflex and relaxation of anal sphincter
5	Male	30	History of brucellosis	20	Neck pain	Normal	Weakness of right limb, positive right Babinski's sign and hypoesthesia at C2
6	Female	34	None	180	Low back pain	Fever	Local tenderness, hypoesthesia of right lower limb, weakness of lower limb, hyporeflexia of lower limb tendon reflex and meningeal irritation sign
7	Female	46	Malignancy, Diabetes mellitus	18	Low back pain	Normal	Weakness of lower limb and hyporeflexia of lower limb tendon reflex
8	Female	51	Local dermal sinus	15	Low back pain	Normal	Weakness of lower limb, hyperreflexia of lower limb tendon reflex, hypermyotonia and hyperesthesia of lower limb
9	Male	54	Local dermal sinus	10	Low back pain	Normal	Weakness of lower limb, hyperreflexia of lower limb tendon reflex, hypermyotonia and hyperesthesia of lower limb
10	Male	56	None	14	Low back pain	Fever	Local tenderness, weakness of lower limb and meningeal irritation sign
11	Female	58	None	20	Chest back pain	Normal	Weakness of lower limb, hyperreflexia of lower limb tendon reflex, pathological signs and hypoesthesia below T6
12	Female	64	None	30	Lumbosacral pain	Fever	Local tenderness, weakness of lower limb and hyporeflexia of lower limb tendon reflex
13	Male	68	Adjacent skin infection	7	Low back pain	Normal	Paralysis of lower limbs and relaxation of anal sphincter