PSEUDO-MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Authors
Citation
Gw. Paulson, PSEUDO-MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, Southern medical journal, 89(3), 1996, pp. 301-304
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
ISSN journal
00384348
Volume
89
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
301 - 304
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-4348(1996)89:3<301:PS>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is among the most crippling diseases of the ne rvous system in young adults, and diagnosis can be difficult, It is tr ue that MS can exist without magnetic resonance imaging or cerebrospin al fluid abnormalities, but whenever there are an atypical clinical pa ttern and no confirmatory laboratory tests, then ''pseudo-MS'' might b e considered, Six cases of presumed pseudo-MS are reported, Psychologi c treatment of these cases was unsatisfactory. Treatment in all such c ases will be difficult, but more so when MS cannot be disproved and wh en the patient resists a psychogenic explanation for the symptoms.