[Clinical systematization and diagnosis of polyneuropathies]

The authors proposed a working scheme for the clinical classification of polyneuropathies according to which the latter ones are divided into primary idiopathic and combined hereditary forms, and secondary ones resulting from infectious, toxic, vascular, metabolic, and physical factors. The authors also worked out the clinical and electroneuromyographic criteria for the diagnosis (including the differential one) of the following disorders: Charcot-Marie's neural amyotrophy, the Roussy-Levy syndrome, sensory polyneuropathy with acroosteolysis, toxic vegetative polyneuropathies, and secondary lesions of the peripheral nervous system in patients with diabetes mellitus and collagenous diseases.