MRI of Multiple Sclerosis

Professor of Radiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Jack Simon, M.D., Ph.D., describes the advantages of MRI for evaluating subclinical disease in Multiple Sclerosis, and explains how recent adoption of MRI evidence in lieu of second attack allows physicians to diagnose MS earlier than ever before. He goes on to review the classic MRI findings for MS in the brain and spinal cord, and lists some of the locations of nonfocal disease (outside plaques) in MS to which advanced quantitative MR imaging is sensitive. This concise and informative treatise on the usefulness of MRI for early diagnosis and differential diagnosis of MS is must-have in every practicing clinician’s ebook library.

The “Radiology Guidance for Referring Physicians” series of ebooks offers practicing clinicians - both primary care doctors and specialists - a quick and easy reference to over 100 distinct conditions, and how state-of-the-art imaging should be applied within the context of diagnosis, preoperative staging and therapy monitoring.

Authored by board certified radiologists who also teach at the finest medical schools in the U.S. and abroad, each ebook is presented in a clear and concise manner meant to be read in less than an hour, yet contains all the necessary information with which to base a decision on when to order advanced imaging studies for the particular disease process under review.

The “Radiology Guidance for Referring Physicians” series offers doctors the opportunity to access crucial information quickly and economically as cases present in daily practice, without the need to invest in a large, all-encompassing (and expensive) tome.