[Ambulance nurses often deal with complaints of chest pain, both when working independently and when on call in an emergency ambulance or quick response vehicle. It is essential that they know as much as possible about any life-threatening symptoms, and are as up-to-date with the latest skills when attending patients. This also helps teamwork and efforts to ensure an improvement and the proper treatment of the patient’s condition (in the context of an ambulance nurse’s duties). This all requires a knowledge of differential diagnosis, which gives a broad outline of the diseases that could potentially underlie the chest pains suffered by a patient who calls an ambulance. The more in-depth theoretical knowledge also promotes an understanding of the importance of intervention by ambulance crew/doctors in the case of certain diseases, the importance of the time factor, and the reason for urgency even if the patient’s condition does not appear serious at first glance. In the light of these factors the authors have undertaken to provide readers with new, evidence-based knowledge.]

[Background - In this paper, we report a coexistence of multiple sclerosis and an intradural spinal cord tumor. Case report - A 34-year-old woman who had a history of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis for the last 15-years presented with acute sensory loss and spasticity in her left lower limb and her spinal magnetic resonance imaging study revealed an intradural spinal cord tumor in the lumbar spine, further diagnosed as ependymoma. Conclusion - We call attention to this rare association of MS and a spinal cord tumor, emphasizing the need for investigation of new symptoms during the evolution of MS.]