Demyelinating disease in a woman from tropical South America with features of multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica. Clinical, protein chemistry and pathological findings

MeSH terms

• Adolescent
• Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / therapeutic use
• Adult
• Basal Ganglia / pathology
• Biopsy
• Blood Protein Electrophoresis
• Blood Proteins*
• Brain / pathology
• Cerebellum / pathology
• Cerebral Cortex / pathology
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins*
• Demyelinating Diseases / diagnosis*
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Diencephalon / pathology
• Electrocardiography
• Electroencephalography
• Electrophoresis
• Female
• Guyana
• Humans
• Immunoelectrophoresis
• Medulla Oblongata / pathology
• Multiple Sclerosis / diagnosis*
• Multiple Sclerosis / pathology
• Muscles / pathology
• Myelography
• Optic Nerve / pathology
• Pons / pathology
• Prednisone / therapeutic use
• Spinal Cord / pathology
• Spinal Nerves / pathology