NEW DIAGNOSTIC-CRITERIA FOR MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS - GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS
NEW DIAGNOSTIC-CRITERIA FOR MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS - GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH PROTOCOLS
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DOI:
10.1002/ana.410130302
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
11.2
通讯作者:
TOURTELLOTTE, WW
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作者:
POSER, CM;PATY, DW;TOURTELLOTTE, WW
Several schemes for the diagnosis and clinical classification of multiple sclerosis (MS) have been advanced [l}. The best known is that published by Schumacher et alC31. The criteria for this scheme were established in order to select patients for participation in therapeutic trials, and pertain only to what might be called definite MS. No provision was made for incorporating supportive laboratory data into the diagnostic criteria.As no reliable specific laboratory test for the diagnosis of MS has been discovered, the diagnosis remains a clinical one, and there is still a need for clinical diagnostic criteria. However, several laboratory and clinical procedures have been developed within the last decade which aid greatly in demonstrating neurological dysfunction attributable to lesions, and even the lesions themselves.