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João Vitor Gerdulli Tamanini1, João Vitor Sabino2, Rafael Alves Cordeiro3
1Medical Resident, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Sao Paulo Federal University, SP, Brazil.
Abstract:
Demyelinating and inflammatory myelopathies represent a group of diseases with characteristic patterns in neuroimaging and several differential diagnoses. The main imaging patterns of demyelinating myelopathies (multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-related disorder) and inflammatory myelopathies (systemic lupus erythematosus-myelitis, sarcoidosis-myelitis, Sjögren-myelitis, and Behçet's-myelitis) will be discussed in this article, highlighting key points to the differential diagnosis.
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