E Peter, M Robert, V Guinet, P Krolak-Salmon, V Desestret, S Jacquin-Courtois, F Cohen, P Sève, A Garnier-Crussard
Systemic diseases, which are in France mainly monitored in internal medicine, affect multiple organs or tissues. While cutaneous or articular manifestations are the most common, neurological involvement is often associated with severity. Diagnosis of peripheral (e.g, neuropathies) or central (e.g, myelitis) nervous disorders is quite easy through clinical examination and dedicated complementary tests. However, neuropsychological manifestations that affect cognition, including memory, attention, executive functions or reasoning, are difficult to diagnose, sometimes trivialized by practitioners...
January 2022: La Revue de Médecine Interne