Poland 2006: Multifocal central nervous system lesions --multiple sclerosis or neuroborreliosis?]

1: Przegl Epidemiol. 2006;60 Suppl 1:39-45. Links
[Multifocal central nervous system lesions --multiple sclerosis or
neuroborreliosis?]
[Article in Polish]
Drozdowski W.
Klinika Neurologii AM w Bialymstoku.

Multiple sclerosis is the most frequent multifocal disease of the
central nervous system, but in a diagnosis of atypical cases about 100
other diseases should be considered. Neuroborreliosis plays a
particular role among them, especially in endemic regions. Difficulties
result from similarities of clinical symptoms and lack of specific
diagnostic investigations. Diagnostic procedures in neuroborreliosis
are mostly based on laboratory analyses and serologic examinations of
serum and cerebrospinal fluid, in connection with a clinical picture
and an epidemiological state. Since the year 2001, multiple sclerosis
neurological diagnostic is based on the diagnostic criteria established
under the auspices of The US National Multiple Sclerosis Society and
International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies. Those
recommendations regarding relapsing-remitting MS and primary
progressing MS are discussed in this paper. Current knowledge of those
diseases warrants cautiousness in the diagnostic of atypical cases.

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