Studying neuroanatomy can be made more interesting when clinical and imaging findings show correlations within areas of the central nervous system. This young woman presented with diplopia and had a demyelinating plaque in the region of the left abducens nucleus. Remaining lesions and spinal fluid analysis confirmed her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis11. Krieger SC, Cook K, De Nino S, Fletcher M. The topographical model of multiple sclerosis: A dynamic visualization of disease course. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2016 Sep;3(5):e279. https://doi.org/10.1212/NXI.0000000000000279.
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. In neuroanatomy classes, vascular lesions and tumors are often used to show the exact location of brain structures, but multiple sclerosis is not usually presented to students with this purpose. Students may improve their understanding of neuroanatomy when the relevance of the subject is made clear by medical cases (Figure).
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1Krieger SC, Cook K, De Nino S, Fletcher M. The topographical model of multiple sclerosis: A dynamic visualization of disease course. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2016 Sep;3(5):e279. https://doi.org/10.1212/NXI.0000000000000279
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Sept 2019
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Received
10 Dec 2018 -
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Accepted
26 Mar 2019