title: [False diagnosis of space occupying lesions as multiple sclerosis (author's transl)].
abstract: Two cases are described in which severe neurological deficits arose because of the wrong diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis over many years. In both cases the correct diagnosis of a space occupying lesion was possible by clinical signs, particularly by the X-ray examination.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001917:Brachial Plexus; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D010264:Paraplegia; D011782:Quadriplegia; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Verkennung spinaler Raumforderungen als multiple Sklerose