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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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Multiple Sclerosis/diagnosis , Age Factors , Evoked Potentials/physiology , Humans , Multiple Sclerosis/cerebrospinal fluid , Multiple Sclerosis/physiopathologySubject(s)
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/complications , Whipple Disease/etiology , Adult , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
After reporting a case of synergistic gas gangrene of the retroperitoneum spreading to the thigh, revealing a carcinoma of the descending colon, the authors review the symptomatology and management of synergistic gas gangrene defined as a gas gangrene due to anaerobic non clostridial bacilli, and aerobic flora and emphasize the exceptional nature of its association with a carcinoma of the colon.
