Neurological diseases differential diagnosis

Differential Diagnosis An outbreak of VEE may be difficult to distinguish from influenza on clinical grounds. Clues to the diagnosis are the appearance of a small proportion of neurological cases or disease in horses, mules and donkeys, but these might be absent in a biological warfare or terrorist attack. 

Stourac, R, and Bednafova, J., Intrathecal, antiviral and oligoclonal IgG synthesis in multiple sclerosis and its significance in differential diagnosis of neurological diseases. Clin. Biochem. Metab. 8(29), 204-208 (2000). 

Encephalopathy can occur in a number of extrahepatic diseases, such as toxic, metabolic or circulatory disorders, intracranial space-occupying lesions, hypothyroidism (35) and neurological/psychiatric diseases, (s. tab. 15.2) Identification of neuropsychiatric symptoms always calls for careful differential diagnosis. 

Non-neoplastic lesions are often evaluated by a neurologist. Thus, a major neurologic symptom (e.g., pain, weakness, or visual loss) or category of neurologic disease (e.g., dementia) may focus the differential diagnosis (Table 20.3). 

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