A Blind Spot in the Diagnostic Field: The Challenging Diagnosis of Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis

Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis (TMS) is a rare variant with 1 per 1000 cases of MS and 3 per million cases per year. TMS can mimic clinical and radiological features of a neoplasm, infarction, or abscess and therefore can be diagnostically challenging for clinicians. We present a clinical scenario o...

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Autores principales: Mando, Ramy, Muallem, Emile, Meka, Shaiva G., Berghea, Ramona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30050706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6841291
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author Mando, Ramy
Muallem, Emile
Meka, Shaiva G.
Berghea, Ramona
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description Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis (TMS) is a rare variant with 1 per 1000 cases of MS and 3 per million cases per year. TMS can mimic clinical and radiological features of a neoplasm, infarction, or abscess and therefore can be diagnostically challenging for clinicians. We present a clinical scenario of a patient presenting with left homonymous hemianopia with atypical radiological features initially thought to be more consistent with neoplasm or infraction. Ultimately, biopsy was done which led to the diagnosis of tumefactive multiple sclerosis.
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spelling pubmed-60402622018-07-26 A Blind Spot in the Diagnostic Field: The Challenging Diagnosis of Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis Mando, Ramy Muallem, Emile Meka, Shaiva G. Berghea, Ramona Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis (TMS) is a rare variant with 1 per 1000 cases of MS and 3 per million cases per year. TMS can mimic clinical and radiological features of a neoplasm, infarction, or abscess and therefore can be diagnostically challenging for clinicians. We present a clinical scenario of a patient presenting with left homonymous hemianopia with atypical radiological features initially thought to be more consistent with neoplasm or infraction. Ultimately, biopsy was done which led to the diagnosis of tumefactive multiple sclerosis. Hindawi 2018-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6040262/ /pubmed/30050706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6841291 Text en Copyright © 2018 Ramy Mando et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A Blind Spot in the Diagnostic Field: The Challenging Diagnosis of Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis
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title_fullStr A Blind Spot in the Diagnostic Field: The Challenging Diagnosis of Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30050706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6841291
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