Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Rare Case Report

Tumefactive multiple sclerosis (TMS) is a rare variant of multiple sclerosis (MS) with atypical features that pose a diagnostic challenge. In this study, we report a case of cervical MS in a 19-year-old patient that was diagnosed based on the MRI findings and cerebrospinal fluid analysis. The patien...

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Autores principales: Mamilly, Ahmed, Aslan, Asala, Adeeb, Nimer, Al Asfari, Aya, Cuellar, Hugo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7039350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32140322
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6754
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author Mamilly, Ahmed
Aslan, Asala
Adeeb, Nimer
Al Asfari, Aya
Cuellar, Hugo
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description Tumefactive multiple sclerosis (TMS) is a rare variant of multiple sclerosis (MS) with atypical features that pose a diagnostic challenge. In this study, we report a case of cervical MS in a 19-year-old patient that was diagnosed based on the MRI findings and cerebrospinal fluid analysis. The patient was treated with high-dose steroid and five sessions of plasma exchange with significant improvement. 
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spelling pubmed-70393502020-03-05 Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Rare Case Report Mamilly, Ahmed Aslan, Asala Adeeb, Nimer Al Asfari, Aya Cuellar, Hugo Cureus Neurology Tumefactive multiple sclerosis (TMS) is a rare variant of multiple sclerosis (MS) with atypical features that pose a diagnostic challenge. In this study, we report a case of cervical MS in a 19-year-old patient that was diagnosed based on the MRI findings and cerebrospinal fluid analysis. The patient was treated with high-dose steroid and five sessions of plasma exchange with significant improvement.  Cureus 2020-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7039350/ /pubmed/32140322 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6754 Text en Copyright © 2020, Mamilly et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mamilly, Ahmed
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Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Rare Case Report
title Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Rare Case Report
title_full Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Rare Case Report
title_fullStr Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Rare Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Rare Case Report
title_short Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A Rare Case Report
title_sort tumefactive multiple sclerosis of the cervical spinal cord: a rare case report
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7039350/
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