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Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies as the First Presentation of Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis is a disease process which predominantly affects the lungs but can involve virtually any organ in the human body. Neurosarcoidosis is a rare manifestation which can present in a variety of ways. There is no single diagnostic test for sarcoidosis; hence, the diagnosis is based on combined...

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Autores principales: Rose, Oliver, Ahmad, Zahoor, Snow, Barry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24790763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/592510
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description Sarcoidosis is a disease process which predominantly affects the lungs but can involve virtually any organ in the human body. Neurosarcoidosis is a rare manifestation which can present in a variety of ways. There is no single diagnostic test for sarcoidosis; hence, the diagnosis is based on combined clinical, laboratorial, and radiological grounds. We describe a rare case where a patient presented with dysphagia, hoarseness, hearing loss, and unsteadiness.
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spelling pubmed-39848042014-04-30 Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies as the First Presentation of Sarcoidosis Rose, Oliver Ahmad, Zahoor Snow, Barry Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Sarcoidosis is a disease process which predominantly affects the lungs but can involve virtually any organ in the human body. Neurosarcoidosis is a rare manifestation which can present in a variety of ways. There is no single diagnostic test for sarcoidosis; hence, the diagnosis is based on combined clinical, laboratorial, and radiological grounds. We describe a rare case where a patient presented with dysphagia, hoarseness, hearing loss, and unsteadiness. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3984804/ /pubmed/24790763 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/592510 Text en Copyright © 2014 Oliver Rose et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies as the First Presentation of Sarcoidosis
title Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies as the First Presentation of Sarcoidosis
title_full Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies as the First Presentation of Sarcoidosis
title_fullStr Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies as the First Presentation of Sarcoidosis
title_full_unstemmed Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies as the First Presentation of Sarcoidosis
title_short Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies as the First Presentation of Sarcoidosis
title_sort multiple cranial nerve palsies as the first presentation of sarcoidosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24790763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/592510
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