Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in an elderly patient following pneumococcal vaccination with extremely high cerebrospinal fluid interleukin‐6

Postvaccination acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) may develop 2–30 days after vaccination. However, ADEM following pneumococcal vaccination has never been reported.

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