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What is the role of MRI spine in prognostication of 'Clinically Isolated syndrome'?MRI brain if abnormal would suggest 85% chance of Multiple sclerosis. |
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An MRI of the spinal cord is important to get in CIS patients because it would count as an infratentorial lesion (McDonald criteria). It's also pretty common for CIS patients to have abnormal spinal cord MRI's (up to 80% -- see Bot et al; Neurology; 2004; 62:226) and half of them can be asymptomatic, so I don't think that an abnormal SC MRI necessarily means worse outcome. |
