Multiple Sclerosis Abnormal Thoracic Spine Mri
The radiologist report states the following.
Multiple sclerosis abnormal thoracic spine mri. Spinal cord lesions are common in ms. They re found in about 80 percent of people newly diagnosed with ms. Multiple sclerosis patientswithillness ofdurationgreaterthan 10years theseareasofabnormalt2. Ms lesions on the spinal cord can be seen on an mri scan as shown here.
Numbers in parentheses are sublistings of abnormal. About 5 of people with multiple sclerosis don t have lesions in the brain that show up on the test. Sometimes the number of spinal lesions identified from an mri can provide the doctor. Disease related changes in the brain or spinal cord are detected by mri in more.
Ms lesions on the thoracic area are less common in ms. Normal thoracic vertebral alignment is present without subluxation. 1 s spinal ms is often associated with. Every patient received a scan of the cervical spine but only 34 received thoracic scans.
I had an mri 3t of the t spine. I am afraid you will have to probably wait until you see your doctor again. An mri result that says things are normal does not absolutely rule out multiple sclerosis. Virtually everyone with multiple sclerosis ms has signs of lesions in the brain as shown by magnetic.
Although with the optic neuritis you would expect to see more in the brain mri. Multiple lesions in different regions of the brain but also in time. Practice essentials magnetic resonance imaging mri was first used to visualize multiple sclerosis ms in the upper cervical spine in the late 1980s. I am sorry that i cant help any more.
There does seem to be more issues in your thoracic mri but these would not cause the optic neuritis. A few scattered t1 and t2 hyperintense lesions are present most consistent with typical vertebral hemangiomata.