Bell-shaped sensory impairments of all modalities in a neurosarcoidosis patient

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 794-798

  Miura, Shiroh ^a   Kusumoto, Masashi ^a   Noda, Kazuhito ^a   Azuma, Koichi ^a   Toda, Reiko ^a   Honda, Seiyo ^a   Ayabe, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Aizawa, Hisamichi ^a   Taniwaki, Takayuki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsal root; Neurosarcoidosis; Sensory impairment

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GALLIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYSOZYME; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CD4 CD8 RATIO; DERMATOME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; LACRIMAL GLAND; LANGHANS GIANT CELL; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROTID GLAND; PATELLA TENDON; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PLEURA EFFUSION; REMISSION; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STEROID THERAPY; TENDON REFLEX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; TUBERCULIN TEST;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SARCOIDOSIS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 34548583937     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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