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Spinal-Cord MRI in Multiple Sclerosis: Conventional and Nonconventional MR Techniques

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NEUROIMAGING CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 81-+

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W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2008.09.005

Keywords

Multiple sclerosis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Spinal cord; Atrophy; DWI; Spectroscopy; Functional MRI; Demyelination

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Multiple sclerosis is a diffuse disease of the central nervous system, and MRI of the spinal cord is highly recommended in the clinical evaluation of patients suspected of having multiple sclerosis. Within the new diagnostic criteria, spinal cord MRI increases sensitivity and possibly specificity for MS, but further work is needed to investigate other criteria that may give greater weight to the presence of cord lesions in patients with clinically isolated syndromes or suspected relapsing-remitting

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