Talk:Borderline forms of multiple sclerosis
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I put the expert tag here because I'm not sure that anyone in the field uses the term "Multiple sclerosis borderline." The article needs a reference to show that this term is used.--Dcooper 18:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- The literal name used in articles is "Borderline forms of multiple sclerosis". I am afraid that I was not very careful naming the article. I have fixed it. The place where I took the name from is [1]. I have seen now in pubmed that all the articles that use this name come from french teams, and maybe it is a translation of a french name that has no equivalent in english. --Juansempere 23:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
That makes sense, but I'm still not confident the term is widely used. There are only three pubmed articles and the exact phrase gets 19 hits in google. Is this classification used in medical textbooks? Would neurologists know about it?--Dcooper 13:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- The term is not widely used, but I haven't found any other that is. Each team uses a different term to speak about this set of diseases together, like MS-spectrum [2] , demyelinating spectrum, [3] and probably other similar expressions. The good thing about the article from where I took the title is that they enumerate the diseases that they considered inside. Of course, I agree that the expert tag should remain. Maybe there is an official term that we ignore.--Juansempere 11:05, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
