INITIAL MANIFESTATION OF MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS IN THE NMR - COMPARATIVE-STUDY WITH DEFINITE MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 57 (8) , 455-460
Abstract
40 patients with a definite diagnosis and 16 patients with an initial manifestation of multiple sclerosis were investigated by cerebral nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR) and compared. The initial manifestation is predominantly characterized in the NMR 1) by significantly less periventricular involvement, especially within the region of the occipital horns, 2) by significantly rarer appearance of confluent, periventricular lesions within the region of the pars centralis and the temporal horns of the lateral ventricles and 3) by significantly rarer appearance of circumscribed non-periventricular lesions. Unlike those in definite multiple sclerosis, the morphology and distribution of the initial lesions do no show a stereotypical and diagnostically characteristic pattern. The importance of the cerebral NMR for the early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis lies primarily in the indication of disseminated lesions.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: