[Acute, non-traumatic paraplegia syndromes in children].

Acute, non-traumatic paraplegia is a very rare condition in childhood. Because of this the correct diagnosis is not recognized in time. We want to call attention to this illness by reporting on four patients we treated between the years 1984 and 1986. We put together and analyzed the literature on this disorder for the first time, and established guide lines-first, to recognize those causes of the disorder which by all means have to be treated in time, and second, how to proceed further diagnostically.