[Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis].
Multiple sclerosis definition is anatomical. Its symptomatology is not specific and 4 main criteria are necessary in order to obtain a diagnosis of certitude or of presumption: 1) dissemination of signs and symptoms in space and time; 2) respect of age; 3) the symptomatology must be the expression of lesions affecting mainly the white matter; 4) elimination of other possible diagnosis. CSF examination, evoked potential and NMR study may help to the diagnosis, but no abnormality is specific of multiple sclerosis.
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Service de neurologie et de neuropsychologie, hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
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D000367:Age Factors; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology
Diagnostic de la sclérose en plaques.