[Clinical diagnostic criteria in Parkinson's disease and parkinsonian syndromes: review of the literature].
This paper reviews the validity of clinical diagnostic criteria developed for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonian syndromes. Proposed criteria are predominantly empirical. There are only a few studies with neuropathological verifications. For Parkinson's disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy clinicopathological studies have been performed and led to pathologically based criteria. In this context, the specificity and sensitivity of clinical criteria could be assessed. Reliability however has seldom been tested. In contrast, the proposed criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Multiple System Atrophy and Corticobasal atrophy have not been pathologically evaluated.
Service de Neurologie - CHU Grenoble.
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D006801:Humans; D019578:Multiple System Atrophy / Q000175:diagnosis; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D020734:Parkinsonian Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013494:Supranuclear Palsy, Progressive / Q000175:diagnosis