[PDF] Top 20 MR imaging in multiple sclerosis: comparison with clinical, CSF, and visual evoked potential findings

... Subjects and Methods One hundred thirty-six patients were included in the study and evaluated with respect to MR resu lts, certainty of diagnosis , CSF laboratory and VEP findings , dura[r] ... See full document

... Clinically definite MS: Two attacks at least 1 month apart with clinical evidence of two separate lesions Two attacks at least 1 month apart with clinical evidence of one lesion and para[r] ... See full document

... Uniform ROIs also were drawn in normal-appearing PWM regions, which were defined as the WM closest to and sur- rounding the plaque that was not abnormal in signal intensity on coregistered T2-weighted images. These ROIs ... See full document

... calculations, comparison of the estimated shape pa- rameter of the Weibull distribution on dataset B showed little difference between both datasets (shape ⫽ ... See full document

... the MR imaging variables were not ...3 MR imaging measures (cortical lesion number, cortical lesion volume, white matter lesion volume), neuropsychological test performance, and physical ... See full document

... MR Imaging Lesion ...FLAIR findings, which have shown higher sensitivity and lower interobserver variabil- ity than do fast spin-echo T2-weighted images in the detection of areas of T2 prolongation ... See full document

... between MR measures of accumulated bur- den of disease and clinical ...between MR-visible activity and the occurrence of relapses is also moderate at best ...be MR metrics in patients with ... See full document

... cranial MR at the time of initial clinical presentation were not included in this ...study. Clinical evaluation included serial neurologic examination as well as spinal fluid anal- ...ysis. ... See full document

... similar findings, although with smaller effects than reported in the original one, thus establishing VEP as a sensitive method to detect clinically silent ...in imaging results leads to ... See full document

... MR imaging and MR spectroscopy (PEPSI) were performed on a ...Axial MR imaging parameters included contiguous dual-echo images, one echo with low CSF signal intensity (2000/35, ... See full document

... brain MR imaging, in- cluding DTI at 3T (see below). Clinical data are shown in the ...All clinical, electrophysiologic, and imaging examinations in each patient were performed within 3 ... See full document

... Electrical stimulation near dorsal raphe nucleus provoke Migraine. Projections from these nucleus terminate on the cerebral arteries and alter cerebral blood flow. The Dorsal raphe also projects to the neurons in the ... See full document

... Our findings in patients with high grade gliomas are in good ...echo-planar imaging allow the differentiation be- tween edema and tumor when the abnormality was located in white matter aligned in the ... See full document

... of clinical or paraclinical dissemination in time and space [8-10], and the only biological tests currently considered to be of diagnostic relevance are oligoclonal band assessment and the exclusion of ... See full document

... The MR findings were predictive of subtypes of cerebral ...whereas MR evidence of PVL was often associated with spas- tic diplegia (22, 26, ... See full document

... 14 MR imaging provides insights into the pathogenic processes of MS, alongside other noninvasive tech- niques and clinical ...particular, MR imaging by using gadolinium-containing ... See full document

... Two of the 10 patients (patients 4 and 7) showed cortical in- volvement on T2WI and FLAIR. Two patients had markedly high systolic blood pressure (systolic blood pressure, 178 mm Hg; di- astolic blood pressure, 86 and 58 ... See full document

... of clinical improvement with immunosuppressive therapy (after excluding patients who received only symptomatic treatment), 4 of 7 (57%) pa- tients with T2-hypointense lesions reported significant relief in their ... See full document

... DT MR imaging appears to offer improved pathologic specificity over conventional MR imaging for assessing the degree of damage in individual MS lesions, and its quantitative nature allows an ... See full document

... recorded visual evoked poten­ tials (VEPs) in 19 patients with unilateral optic neuritis, using two types of stimuli: a black and white chequerboard pattern-reversal and an unstructured ... See full document