Multiple Sclerosis Simulating a Mass Lesion

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Title Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, September 2000, Volume 20, Issue 3
Date 2000-09
Language eng
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Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
ARK ark:/87278/s6r52wtb
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 225077
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6r52wtb

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Title Multiple Sclerosis Simulating a Mass Lesion
Creator Deborah I. Friedman, MD, MPH, Professor, Neurology & Neurotherapeutics, University of Texas Southwestern
Affiliation Department of Neurology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Abstract The cases of two young women with a homonymous hemianopia are described. Both women had a progressively enlarging mass lesion that was seen with neuroimaging studies. One patient had neurologic deterioration despite intravenous corticosteroid treatment. In each case, results of a stereotactic biopsy showed demyelination that was consistent with multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis infrequently presents as a mass lesion. The atypical clinical and radiographic features of large demyelinating plaques may lead to an erroneous diagnosis of a brain tumor, infection, or demyelination from other causes.
Subject Adult; Blood Sedimentation; Brain/drug effects; Brain/pathology; Brain Diseases/diagnosis; Brain Diseases/drug therapy; Demyelinating Diseases/diagnosis; Demyelinating Diseases/drug therapy; Dexamethasone/therapeutic use; Female; Glucocorticoids/therapeutic use; Hemianopsia/diagnosis; Hemianopsia/drug therapy; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Methylprednisolone/therapeutic use; Multiple Sclerosis/diagnosis; Multiple Sclerosis/drug therapy; Paresis/diagnosis; Paresis/drug therapy; Pregnancy; Stereotaxic Techniques
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Format application/pdf
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 225062
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6r52wtb/225062
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