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Chinese Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesions of Central Nervous System

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Author:
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Journal Title:
Chinese Medical Journal
Issue:
15
DOI:
10.4103/0366-6999.211547
Key Word:
Diagnosis Criteria;Guideline;Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesions

Abstract: Tumefactive demyelinating lesions (TDLs),[1-3] previously named as tumor-like inflammatory demyelinating disease[4,5] or demyelinating pseudotumor,[6] are relatively special type of immune-mediated inflammatory demyelinating lesions in the central nervous system (CNS),[7] which mainly occur within cerebrum,but rarely in spinal cord.TDLs are so named because it mimics brain tumors with such characteristics as less severe symptoms,large lesions with perilesional edema,mass effect and/or enhancement on neuroimaging,and easily misdiagnosed as brain tumors.[8,9]

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