Differential diagnosis of optic-spinal multiple sclerosis variant and Devic's disease among Mongoloid race representatives

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the information on the racial peculiarities of some demyelinating diseases of the representatives of Asian nationalities and related methodological difficulties of differential diagnosis. Pay attention to a clinical example of a diagnostic situation.

Keywords

• Devic's neuroopticomyelitis
• diagnostic criteria
• genetic and racial characteristics
• multiple sclerosis
• optic-spinal form
• treatment tactics