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

Abstract

IntroductionBrown-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 ReportWe present a case of a 25-year-old woman presenting with Brown-Séquard syndrome as her first clinical presentation of multiple sclerosis.ConclusionThis case highlights the need to have demyelinating disease on the differential as an exceedingly rare, but important, possible cause of Brown-Séquard syndrome.