Differential diagnoses of MS in clinical practice: incidence and methods for differential diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is based on the McDonald diagnostic criteria and the exclusion of relevant differential diagnoses. This study aimed to determine the relative frequencies of MS differential diagnoses and to identify which diagnostic measures are most effective in distinguishing those from one another.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of all cases treated in the neurology ward of the University Hospital Regensburg during the years 2019 and 2020. The inclusion criteria comprised cases presenting with subacute focal neurological symptoms accompanied by corresponding lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that could not be primarily attributed to MS, tumor, hemorrhage, or ischemia, as well as cases with abnormal

SUBMITTER: Steinberg TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12711508 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature