This PedsCases note provides a one-page overview on Acute Post-Infectious Cerebellar Ataxia, including its etiology, presentation, differential diagnosis, investigations, management and outcome. It was created by Courtney Hebert, a medical student at the University of Alberta with the help of Dr. Colin Wilbur, pediatric neurologist at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta.

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