title: [Diagnostic criteria of multiple sclerosis: electrophysiological criteria].
abstract: We have made a review on the use of evoked potentials in multiple sclerosis (MS) for the past 30 years, in the diagnosis of MS, to disclose subclinical lesions or to assess atypical symptoms. Yet the role of evoked potentials in evaluation of multiple sclerosis has been changed since MRI is now widely and easily used for the diagnosis of MS. Evoked potentials are useful when symptoms are atypical without any objective impairment and when symptoms have already recovered at the time of clinical examination. Visual evoked potentials and somatosensory evoked potentials are widely used thanks to their diagnostic value and their ability to disclose spatial dissemination of multiple sclerosis. Evoked potentials have to be recorded in validated technical conditions such as to ensure reliability of data and have to be interpreted in reference to a population of healthy people recorded in the same conditions and in the same age range as MS patients.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurologie Fonctionnelle et Epileptologie, Hôpital Neurologique, BP Lyon Montchat, 69394 Lyon-France. Catherine.Fischer@univ-lyon1.fr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: André-Obadia
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mauguière
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor / Q000502:physiology; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012016:Reference Values
vernacular_title: Critères diagnostiques de la sclérose en plaques: les critères électrophysiologiques.