by Prof. Radu Tanasescu
Paper: Maggi et al. ‘Central Vein Sign Differentiates Multiple Sclerosis from Central Nervous System Inflammatory Vasculopathies’. Annals of Neurology. 2018;83:283–294.
Outline:
This paper shows for the first time that central vein assessment in white matter lesions, provided by susceptibility-based MRI, has significant impact on the differential diagnosis between MS and inflammatory vasculopathies involving the CNS such as Sjogren’s and SLE.