Punctate, what is it in an MRI reading???
 

I recently got access to 'view my chart' online and read my MRI report from a couple of years ago and it said I have several punctate areas. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks.

Google took me here. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedic...y.com/punctate

as for what it actually means in reference to your actual MRI. I dunno. Everything I just saw mentioned "spots". No idea if it's an abnormal thing.

I think it is a fancy doctor word for "dots" or "points". Probably used when the lesions are too small to bother estimating a size.

Thanks guys. I have always thought that my MRI has only shown my one lesion on the pons. My neuro has been a little hesitant to give me the actual diagnosis of MS. at first it was clinically probable but after my optic neuritis she 'upgraded' me to MS. WOW, an upgrade. So I was a little surprised to see some other things mentioned on the MRI. I think this yer is the year to have another one and it will be interesting to see what it is. I like it that I have all my xray reports made available to me