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"Dawson's Fingers" is a condition affecting the brain of Multiple Sclerosis patients. The condition is the result of inflammation around long axis of medular veins. This results in a finger-like appearance of the lesions extending mainly off the ventricles within the brain.
This morphologic appearance is named after the Scottish pathologist James Walker Dawson [1], who first defined the condition in 1916.
Refererences
- ↑ Dawson, J.W.: The histology of disseminated sclerosis. Trans Roy Soc Edinb, 50: 517, 1916.
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