Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (May 2022)

Newly Diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis Presenting as Brown-Séquard Syndrome: A Case Report

  • Shelby Hoebee,
  • Levi Howard,
  • James Komara,
  • Megan McElhinny

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2022.2.55317
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 2

Abstract

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Introduction: Brown-Séquard syndrome is a rare neurological disorder due to hemisection of the spinal cord that can occur from a variety of causes, most commonly trauma. Case Report: We present a case of a 25-year-old woman presenting with Brown-Séquard syndrome as her first clinical presentation of multiple sclerosis. Conclusion: This case highlights the need to have demyelinating disease on the differential as an exceedingly rare, but important, possible cause of Brown-Séquard syndrome.