Chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding

We describe a 40-year-old woman presenting with headache, nausea, episodic amnesia and blurred optic disc. Brain MRI disclosed diffuse leptomeningeal enhancement. CSF analysis showed aseptic meningitis with elevated ACE level. Neurosarcoidosis was diagnosed based on granulomatosis changes on tissue...

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Autores principales: Vahabi, Zahra, Sikaroodi, Hajir, Abdi, Siamak, Hashemi, Akram
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250841
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author Vahabi, Zahra
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description We describe a 40-year-old woman presenting with headache, nausea, episodic amnesia and blurred optic disc. Brain MRI disclosed diffuse leptomeningeal enhancement. CSF analysis showed aseptic meningitis with elevated ACE level. Neurosarcoidosis was diagnosed based on granulomatosis changes on tissue biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-38292162013-11-18 Chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding Vahabi, Zahra Sikaroodi, Hajir Abdi, Siamak Hashemi, Akram Iran J Neurol Case Report We describe a 40-year-old woman presenting with headache, nausea, episodic amnesia and blurred optic disc. Brain MRI disclosed diffuse leptomeningeal enhancement. CSF analysis showed aseptic meningitis with elevated ACE level. Neurosarcoidosis was diagnosed based on granulomatosis changes on tissue biopsy. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3829216/ /pubmed/24250841 Text en Copyright © 2011 Iranian Neurological Association, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding
title Chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding
title_full Chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding
title_fullStr Chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding
title_full_unstemmed Chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding
title_short Chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding
title_sort chronic meningitis as the first presentation of sarcoidosis: an uncommon finding
topic Case Report
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