A suspicious case of central neurosarcoidosis, manifesting as a progressive gait disturbance with a lesion in the central gray matter of the midbrain, accompanying an elevated level of angiotensin converting enzyme in the cerebrospinal fluid

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 512-515

  Ito, Yasuo ^a   Nakazato, Yoshihiko ^a   Tomioka, Ryo ^a   Tamura, Naotoshi ^a   Shimazu, Kunio ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiotensin converting enzyme; Central gray matter; Central neurosarcoidosis; Meningoencephalitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; GAIT DISORDER; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MESENCEPHALON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SARCOIDOSIS; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; GAIT ATAXIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PREDNISOLONE; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 34548833001     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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