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The patient was sent to a tertiary hospital, where the initial MRI was negative, but due to additional neurological symptoms occurring later, multiple lesions in the cervical spine and cerebellum were detected. The hypothesis of an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) was made. A further workup led to the final diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis. In a retrospective neuroradiologic assessment, an alteration compatible with a non-active demyelinating lesion in the MLF was detected on secondary imaging as a probable cause of the initial pathophysiologic finding. 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