The message I got from this article was that you get the right diagnosis if you do it the right way.
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He focused on four things — the only indicators he needs to re-diagnose or un-diagnose his patients: The patient’s history, an MRI, a spinal tap and a visual evoked potential exam. He says the accuracy rate for diagnosing MS is pretty high with these criteria. “Ninety-nine percent of the time, if all of those line up together.”
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I think that even this 99% figure is overly pessimistic. I do not think that there are many folks with lesions in the right places, the right symptom history, and a positive spinal tap results and abnormal evoked potential results walking the face of the Earth with Misdiagnosed MS.
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