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Long-Term Follow-Up of Acute Partial Transverse Myelopathy Neurol 42:250-252, Ford,B.,et al, 1992 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract We carried out a prospective,long-term,combined clinical and MRI follow-up study on 15 patients hospitalized at the Montreal Neurological Institute between 1985 and 1988 with a diagnosis of acute partial transverse myelopathy of unknown etiology.Twelve of the 15(80%)developed clinically definite or lab-supported definite multiple sclerosis(MS)by the end of a mean follow-up period of 38.5 months.The presence of CNS periventricular white matter lesions by cranial MRI at onset increased the likelihood of development of MS to 93%.

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