who is often led astray by cranial MRI reports interpreted as suggesting the presence of demyelinating disease. Some useful dictums for avoiding the misdiagnosis of MS are found in Box 2.

Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a chronic neurological disease that impacts the brain, spinal cord, and central nervous ... This process, known as demyelination, leaves neurons exposed, eventually ...

In the 3 years before presentation, the patient had been treated with methylprednisolone for suspected acute demyelinating ... Second, spinal cord pathology was not detectable by MRI, as reported ...

In addition, numbness may be due to a disease or medications that cause demyelination (destruction ... nerves are those that emerge from the spinal cord, which send nerve signals to and receive ...