Hydrocephalus and myelopathy: A rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature

Neurological involvement is a rare presentation of sarcoidosis. Physicians should consider sarcoid as a cause of myelitis and hydrocephalus as early management with steroid improves patient survival and reduces long‐term disability.

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Autores principales: Alfraji, Nasam, Douedi, Steven, Hossain, Mohammad A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3003
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spelling pubmed-75628392020-10-20 Hydrocephalus and myelopathy: A rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature Alfraji, Nasam Douedi, Steven Hossain, Mohammad A. Clin Case Rep Case Reports Neurological involvement is a rare presentation of sarcoidosis. Physicians should consider sarcoid as a cause of myelitis and hydrocephalus as early management with steroid improves patient survival and reduces long‐term disability. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7562839/ /pubmed/33088513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3003 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hydrocephalus and myelopathy: A rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature
title Hydrocephalus and myelopathy: A rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature
title_full Hydrocephalus and myelopathy: A rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature
title_fullStr Hydrocephalus and myelopathy: A rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Hydrocephalus and myelopathy: A rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature
title_short Hydrocephalus and myelopathy: A rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature
title_sort hydrocephalus and myelopathy: a rare and challenging case of sarcoidosis and review of literature
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3003
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