Tumefactive Demyelinating Multiple Sclerosis in childhood – Case report and review of the literature

Open AccessTumefactive Demyelinating Multiple Sclerosis in Childhood - Case Report and Review of the Literature Promise Koranteng Denis Mutyaba Babita Bhana Jason Labuschagne Promise Koranteng1 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5291-9874 Search for more papers by this author Denis Mutyaba12 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8513-9831 Search for more papers by this author Babita Bhana3 Search for more papers by this author Jason Labuschagne12 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6567-0131 Search for more papers by this author Affiliations 1Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital 2University of the Witwatersrand 3Lancet Laboratories Published Online:5 Nov 2021https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-wjcm-v3-n3-a11SectionsPDF ToolsAdd to favouritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditGMailHotmailYammer AboutAbstractTumefactive demyelination of the central nervous system (CNS) can mimic CNS infections, tumours and other space-occupying lesions of the CNS, posing a diagnostic dilemma and frequently leading to either unnecessary respective surgery or the requirement of a brain biopsy to correctly diagnose these lesions.(1) Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails None Volume 3, Issue 3 | Nov 2021 AffiliationWits University PressEnglishMedicine and HealthOpen AccessInternational JournalsLanguagesEnglish InformationCopyright © 2021, Wits University PressLicensesThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Disclosure The authors confirm that the manuscript has been read and approved by all named authors and that there are no other persons who satisfied the criteria for authorship but are not listed. The authors confirm that they have given due consideration to the protection of intellectual property associated with this work and that there are no impediments to publication, including the timing of publication, with respect to intellectual property. Ethical conduct of research The authors state that they have obtained appropriate institutional review board outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki for all human or animal experimental investigations. A signed informed consent document has been obtained from all participants included in the study.