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. 2017 Dec 7;136(1):76–81. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2017.5470

Table 3. Alternative Diagnoses in Patients Who Were Not Diagnosed as Having Optic Neuritis.

Diagnosis Patients, No. (%) (n = 73)
Headache with eye pain and/or visual symptoms 16 (22)
Functional visual loss 14 (19)
Optic neuropathies 12 (16)
Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy 9 (12)
Arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy 1 (1)
Traumatic optic neuropathy 1 (1)
Unclear etiology 1 (1)
Retinal/macular 11 (15)
Neuroretinitis 3 (4)
Central or branch retinal artery occlusion 2 (3)
Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy 2 (3)
Maculopathy/macular edema 2 (3)
Other 2 (3)
Neoplastic 4 (5)
Optic nerve sheath meningioma 3 (4)
Orbital tumor 1 (1)
Ocular surface disease 3 (4)
Congenital disc abnormalities 3 (4)
Inflammatory 3 (4)
Trochleitis 1 (1)
Uveitis 2 (3)
Other/uncertain 8 (11)