Tumor-like presentation of multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis patients may present with clinical data suggestive of cerebral tumor, however, most of the lesions do not show expansive signs in computerized tomography of brain or magnetic resonance imaging. We report in this paper, 2 patients who had shown expansive radiological signs suggestive of neoplasm. Cerebral biopsy was an important diagnostic procedure in these 2 cases which revealed the diagnosis of demyelinating disease.
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Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 1708 (38), Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D013256:Steroids