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Sonographic Nerve Enlargement in a Patient with Sarcoidosis

We herein report a 73-year-old woman case with sarcoid neuropathy showing nerve enlargement assessed by nerve ultrasound both before and after treatment. The site of conduction block in the left tibial nerve corresponded to the site of nerve enlargement with a hypo-echoic pattern. After treatment wi...

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Autores principales: Kitaoji, Takamasa, Tsuji, Yukiko, Noto, Yu-ichi, Ashida, Shinji, Tanaka, Akihiro, Mizuno, Toshiki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8170233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33250464
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5921-20
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author Kitaoji, Takamasa
Tsuji, Yukiko
Noto, Yu-ichi
Ashida, Shinji
Tanaka, Akihiro
Mizuno, Toshiki
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Ashida, Shinji
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description We herein report a 73-year-old woman case with sarcoid neuropathy showing nerve enlargement assessed by nerve ultrasound both before and after treatment. The site of conduction block in the left tibial nerve corresponded to the site of nerve enlargement with a hypo-echoic pattern. After treatment with prednisolone, nerve ultrasound detected the remission of the nerve enlargement, and the conduction block and clinical symptoms also improved. Nerve enlargement may reflect inflammation of the peripheral nerve. A follow-up study of sonographic nerve enlargement may be of clinical significance for assessing the effectiveness of treatment for sarcoid neuropathy.
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spelling pubmed-81702332021-06-11 Sonographic Nerve Enlargement in a Patient with Sarcoidosis Kitaoji, Takamasa Tsuji, Yukiko Noto, Yu-ichi Ashida, Shinji Tanaka, Akihiro Mizuno, Toshiki Intern Med Case Report We herein report a 73-year-old woman case with sarcoid neuropathy showing nerve enlargement assessed by nerve ultrasound both before and after treatment. The site of conduction block in the left tibial nerve corresponded to the site of nerve enlargement with a hypo-echoic pattern. After treatment with prednisolone, nerve ultrasound detected the remission of the nerve enlargement, and the conduction block and clinical symptoms also improved. Nerve enlargement may reflect inflammation of the peripheral nerve. A follow-up study of sonographic nerve enlargement may be of clinical significance for assessing the effectiveness of treatment for sarcoid neuropathy. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020-11-30 2021-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8170233/ /pubmed/33250464 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5921-20 Text en Copyright © 2021 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Kitaoji, Takamasa
Tsuji, Yukiko
Noto, Yu-ichi
Ashida, Shinji
Tanaka, Akihiro
Mizuno, Toshiki
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title Sonographic Nerve Enlargement in a Patient with Sarcoidosis
title_full Sonographic Nerve Enlargement in a Patient with Sarcoidosis
title_fullStr Sonographic Nerve Enlargement in a Patient with Sarcoidosis
title_full_unstemmed Sonographic Nerve Enlargement in a Patient with Sarcoidosis
title_short Sonographic Nerve Enlargement in a Patient with Sarcoidosis
title_sort sonographic nerve enlargement in a patient with sarcoidosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8170233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33250464
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5921-20
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