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Originally Posted by cat265 View Post
Thanks for all the comments. I had an MRI of brain and cervical spine. The Brain reads like this. Non-enhancing subortical and deep white matter punctuate hymperintensities in both cerebral hemispheres, a non-specific finding with the fifferential diagnosis tha includes MS buth MR findings are not pathognomonic of MS??????

What I think this means is that they've found non-enhancing lesions (not currently inflamed, could be MS non-active though) that are non-specific (no single known cause), that MIGHT be indicative of MS (MS could be one cause), but not pathognomonic (definitively/necessarily) MS.

http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?non-specific
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathognomonic

What did the neuro say?

Cherie
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