title: [Clinical diagnosis of sciatica].
abstract: Sciatica is diagnosed on purely clinical grounds. The initial clinical examination provides the main elements for an aetiological diagnosis. It makes it possible in certain cases to take urgent decisions: to prescribe imaging methods or specific treatments. When examining patients suffering from sciatica, the clinician must aim at gathering elements of answers to the following questions: Is the diagnosis of sciatica ascertained? Is it a common vertebral disc sciatica? Is surgery urgently required? What is the personal and medico-social context?
authors.affiliation: Département de médecine interne, hôpital Cochin, Paris.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sereni
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D012585:Sciatica / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Diagnostic clinique des sciatiques.