Progressive multi-focal leukoencephalopathy as a rare lethal complication in untreated sarcoidosis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hohlfeld, Sabine K ^a   Günthard, Huldrych F ^a   Zeitz, Jonas ^a   Locher, Pascal ^a   Bachli, Esther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Spital Uster   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRTAZAPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GAMMOPATHY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GRANULOMA; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPESTHESIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SARCOIDOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864816950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.03.2011.4036     Document Type: Article

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