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Kerri Wachter
Clinical Neurology News
June 2006 (Vol. 2, Issue 6, Page 15) Full Text |
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The presence of multiple sclerosis lesions on the spinal cord significantly worsens a patient's clinical status, particularly locomotor function. Magnetic resonance imaging has not been up to the job of detecting spinal lesions, given its inability to clearly differentiate gray from white matter, much less lesions from healthy tissue.