MRI and Clinical Profiles of Multiple Sclerosis

ABSTRACT

We retrospectively analyzed twenty three rnagnetic resonance images in eighteen patients of 'definite' multiple sclerosis. On brain MRI films of 15 cases one hundred and twenty lesions were identlfied Fifty-four percent of the lesions (67 /120) were clinically 'silent' and usually located at the centrurn serniovale or periventricular areas. Four of hve patients with clinically suspected optic-spinal forrn did not show MS plaques on brain MRIs. - Seven of eight patients with myelopathy showed MS plaques on spine MRIs which were definitdy correlated with clinical syrnptoms. Neurologic Severity assessed by Kurtzke's disability status scale was not correlated with the severity of MRI.