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by Dr Sten Fredrikson, Division of Neurology, Huddinge Hospital S14186, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Dr Fredrikson is a leading neurologist with extensive experience in treating people with MS. |
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MS may take a variety of forms, but is most commonly relapsing and remitting . This can make diagnosis of the disease difficult, because symptoms that may be alarming or surprising often disappear after a few days, only to resurface months later. When people with MS ultimately go to the neurologist, they undergo a variety of neurological tests. These tests may seem strange and perhaps you have wondered about their purpose. This page will review many of the tests performed to diagnose MS, and will explain the signs that the neurologist is looking for. Remember that this is a review of the tests that are commonly performed. Your neurologist may choose to do other tests. Also, it is often not necessary for your neurologist to perform all of the tests mentioned here, and the diagnosis of MS can often be confirmed using only a few of the available tests. Because MS affects several parts of the central nervous system (CNS), it can appear in different forms, and locating the precise area affected can be difficult. Furthermore, a number of other conditions have symptoms similar to those of MS. How does the neurologist begin to differentiate the different possible causes of the same symptoms? He uses the process of 'differential diagnosis'.
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