I finally posted this on Health Pages. FYI.
I've printed this out. I called the MRI department to ask if my MRIs were done under the MS Protocol, and was told that they were.
It seems clear to me from this that they were not. I have no way of telling if the used 3 mm slices and all that, but my brain MRI reports didn't give the lesion count, location, or shape. They simply state "multiple mm sized areas of increased and abnormal water signal scattered throughout supratentorial white matter tracts. The appearance and distribution of these lesions is far and away most consistent with multiple sclerosis."
Of course there is more than that, about a prominence of the CSF spaces about the posterior fossa at the midline. The MRA I had called thatconsistent with a mega cisterna magna. Anyway, he talks about the parts that are normal, and so forth.
Were there just too many little lesions for him to count? I wish he had described their locations, at least the ones that were "most consistent with MS".
I'll ask my MS Specialist about this; maybe I'll get the new MRIs with a 3 T machine done under the MS Protocol. Its worth a try, anyway. :o)
Kathy
This is good info to keep on hand. Thanks for posting it.
Julie
A classic quote from that site....:
Ms. Dottie Pfohl: You know, in your lecture you mentioned zebra and horse.
What was that all about?
Dr. Anthony Traboulsee: Oh, the zebra and horse. There’s this old saying in
diagnostic medicine - if you hear hoofs, you should be thinking horses, not zebras.
Ms. Dottie Pfohl: Oh, got you.
Dr. Anthony Traboulsee: That means when you--if you see some white spots on
an MRI in someone with the symptoms classic for MS, you should be thinking of--you
know, MS should be the first thing that comes to your mind as opposed to some exotic
infection from deepest, darkest somewhere.
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A breath of fresh air....
Exactly! This is what we have needed. Thank you, soooo much!
Now I suspect that some of this will need interpretation into plainer words.
Anyone have questions?
Quix