[Diagnosis and etiopathogenesis of retinitis in patients with multiple sclerosis].

Presented are: the incidence, symptomatology and diagnostics together with electroretinography of retinal periphlebitis as well as retinitis and maculopathy in patients with multiple sclerosis. Particular attention is called to the histopathology of the retina in this disease. The etiopathology of retinitis and maculopathy in multiple sclerosis is still unknown. Four etiopathological hypotheses are shortly discussed.