Cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy

Bilateral sciatic neuropathy is a rare condition and it has been described as a compression or entrapment neuropathy but it is an uncommon clinical manifestation due to necrotizing vasculitis. We report an unusual case of cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy in an elderly woman with no underlying infectious...

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Autores principales: Pérez, Desireé, de la Torre, Ricardo Gómez, Carrio, Isabel, Pinto, Jesús, Morís, Germán
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18834546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-1-18
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author Pérez, Desireé
de la Torre, Ricardo Gómez
Carrio, Isabel
Pinto, Jesús
Morís, Germán
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Carrio, Isabel
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description Bilateral sciatic neuropathy is a rare condition and it has been described as a compression or entrapment neuropathy but it is an uncommon clinical manifestation due to necrotizing vasculitis. We report an unusual case of cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy in an elderly woman with no underlying infectious or neoplastic cause; acute bilateral sciatic mononeuropathy was the presenting clinical manifestation of the cryoglobulinaemia.
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spelling pubmed-25725852008-10-25 Cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy Pérez, Desireé de la Torre, Ricardo Gómez Carrio, Isabel Pinto, Jesús Morís, Germán Int Arch Med Case Report Bilateral sciatic neuropathy is a rare condition and it has been described as a compression or entrapment neuropathy but it is an uncommon clinical manifestation due to necrotizing vasculitis. We report an unusual case of cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy in an elderly woman with no underlying infectious or neoplastic cause; acute bilateral sciatic mononeuropathy was the presenting clinical manifestation of the cryoglobulinaemia. BioMed Central 2008-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2572585/ /pubmed/18834546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-1-18 Text en Copyright © 2008 Pérez et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pérez, Desireé
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Morís, Germán
Cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy
title Cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy
title_full Cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy
title_fullStr Cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy
title_full_unstemmed Cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy
title_short Cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy
title_sort cryoglobulinaemic neuropathy: a further cause of bilateral sciatic neuropathy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18834546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-1-18
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