Multiple sclerosis in a black Cameroonian woman.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has never been described in Bantu South Africans whereas it does exist in mixed race South Africans. The authors report a case of MS in a Semi-Bantu black woman from Cameroon (Central Africa) who presented with a typical remitting and relapsing course with MRI and CSF findings consistent with MS.
Mbonda
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Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, Service de Neurologie Pédiatrique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles.
Larnaout
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Maertens
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Appel
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Lowenthal
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Mbede
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Evrard
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D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology; D002163:Cameroon; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology