Talk:Inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

I've removed "borderline forms of multiple sclerosis" as an alternative name because the only reliable sources I could find the term used in were french. So it doesn't make sense to include it as an alternative name on the English Wikipedia Tristario (talk) 10:52, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

It seems that the most extended name for this collection of diseases is IIDD, that stands for Idiopathic inflammatory demyelinating diseases. If nobody disagrees in a couple of days I will change the name.--Juansempere 19:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've tagged this article for tone as some of the content seems rather informally written. It would benefit from copyediting as well as attention from an expert. Neurotip (talk) 13:41, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Anti-TNF spectrum"

I have noticed that the information regarding this spectrum relies heavily on case reports for some statements that case reports aren't suitable to support WP:MEDRS, and that none of the sources used for this explicitly talk about an "anti-TNF spectrum" of Inflammatory demyelinating diseases. I will try to fix this however I can, and I thought I should make a note about this on the talk page Tristario (talk) 09:54, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

After more investigation there seems to be a heavy reliance on primary sources throughout this article in a manner not compliant with WP:MEDRS, so I'm adding a template to the article Tristario (talk) 05:29, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]