[Diagnostic patterns of CSF immune response (author's transl)].

The AA. critically evaluate the different methods used for the study of the CSF proteins and particularly examine the diagnostic meaning of some blood and CSF proteins ratios. According to the cases they report, the AA. think that some patterns characteristic of the nervous system diseases can be defined and they point out the importance of the contemporaneity of the examination of the CSF and of the serum in order to improve the significance of laboratory data.