Meningeal inflammation in multiple sclerosis: The key to the origin of cortical lesions?

Neurology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 12-13

  Mainero, Caterina ^a,b   Louapre, Celine ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; PROCEDURES;

GADOLINIUM;

GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING;

EID: 84937000979     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000001586     Document Type: Editorial

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