Sandesh Gautam, Sanjaya Sapkota, Rajeev Ojha, Anamika Jha, Ragesh Karn, Bikram Prasad Gajurel, Reema Rajbhandari, Sunanda Paudel, Niraj Gautam, Ashish Shrestha
Organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy, a central-distal axonopathy, passes through latent, progressive, static and improvement phases. During the improvement phase, the peripheral nerves regenerate unmasking the spinal cord lesion with myelopathic features. We report a case of a 16-year-old male who developed myelopathy 6 weeks following chlorpyrifos poisoning. He had a motor weakness of 4/5 in bilateral hips and 3/5 in bilateral knees and ankles. Spasticity and exaggerated reflexes with ankle clonus were present in the lower limbs...
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