What Is a Multiple Sclerosis Lesion

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Nurse Joan describes a Multiple Sclerosis lesion and at what time after the disease erupts, the lesion appears.

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Joan Ohayon: When we refer to the MS lesion we're referring to the demyelinating areas in the central nervous system and when we actually see this for example on an MRI scan, and many people that have MS have looked at their scans, you're going to actually see demarcated areas that are depending on what image you are looking at, they maybe different colors but often they're going to be white demarcated areas and sometimes they're very circumvent. At times they're a little bit fuzzier. But they are just kind of spots on the brain, and this is from the demyelination.
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