Multiple Sclerosis Cases with Atypical Signs

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease mainly affecting the central neruous system and the white matter, but findings of gray matter and signs simulating peripheral nerve involvement can also be encountered rarely. In this pap er, six patients with peripheral nerve and gray matter findings such as trigeminal neuralgia, oculomotor nerve palsy, peripheral facial palsy (two patients), bilateral symmetrical amyotrophy and lumbar radicular involvement presented. They were all diagnosed as definite multiple sclerosis with their clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings, oligoclonal bands in the cerebrospinal fluid and evoked potential (EP) studies.