Enhancing Brain Lesions during Acute Optic Neuritis and/or Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis May Portend a Higher Relapse Rate in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders.

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Published in AJNR Am J Neuroradiol on March 16, 2017

Authors

G Orman1, K Y Wang1, Y Pekcevik1, C B Thompson1, M Mealy1, M Levy1, I Izbudak2

Author Affiliations

1: From the Division of Neuroradiology (G.O., Y.P., I.I.), Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, and Department of Neurology (M.M., M.L.), The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Radiology (K.Y.W.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; and Biostatistics Center (C.B.T.), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
2: Department of Radiology (D.M.Y., I.I.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.

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