Acta neurologica Scandinavica
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Acta Neurol. Scand. · Jun 2004
Comparative StudyDiagnosis of multiple sclerosis: comparison of the Poser criteria and the new McDonald criteria.
A confident and accurate diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is important, but a specific diagnostic test for the disease does not exist. The traditional diagnostic criteria of Poser et al. were published in 1983, and recently, McDonald et al. recommended new criteria for the diagnosis of MS. ⋯ MS according to the McDonald criteria was diagnosed more often than 'clinically definite MS' according to Poser et al., but combining the categories of clinically and laboratory definite MS, the diagnosis of MS could clearly be established more frequently using the Poser criteria.