title: [Thoughts on differential diagnosis].
abstract: Referring to H. E. Bock's famous lectures on differential diagnostics, some recent developments are discussed. Topical remarks are given concerning modern differential diagnostics. In general, they have changed from the diagnostic of the phenotype to the detection of the pathogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Köln.
authors.forename: Rudolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology; D009154:Mutation; D010641:Phenotype