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Current concepts in the diagnosis of transverse myelopathies

The clinical symptoms and MRI characteristics of transverse myelopathy (TM) due to non-compressive causes are reviewed, with special emphasis on the differential diagnosis between inflammatory demyelinating lesions, and metabolic and vascular myelopathies. Inflammatory transverse myelopathies are the commonest and most difficult ones to identify. The differentiation between clinical, isolated syndromes, multiple sclerosis. neuromyelitis optica, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and metabolic causes is based on both clinical symptoms and paraclinical signs including magnetic resonance imaging, cerebrospinal fluid analysis, and immunological and biochemical parameters. The most intriguing form of TM is that where there is clinical evidence of complete spinal cord transection, with normal findings in magnetic resonance imaging in the acute phase, but subsequent cord atrophy.

transvese myelopathy; neuromyelitis optica; disseminated encephalomyelitis; clinically isolated syndrome; multiple sclerosis; systemic-lupus-erythematosus; optica devics-syndrome; neuromyelitis-optica; multiple-sclerosis; disseminated encephalomyelitis; spinal-cord; diferential-diagnosis; deficiency myelopathy; different diseases; myasthenia-gravis

Rad je prezentiran na skupu The 4th Dubrovnik International Conference on Multiple Sclerosis and Continuing Education ; Vesna V. Brinar, Mario Habek, Charles M.Poser (ur.).