Amnesic syndrome caused by neurosarcoidosis.
A 20-year-old woman presented with subacute amnesia, which turned out to have been caused by neurosarcoidosis. The patient showed several remarkable features: isolated bilateral temporal hydrocephalus, caused by ventriculitis/arachnoiditis; spinal arachnoiditis as demonstrated by myelography, which was not noticed on MR scan. Diagnostic difficulties that are sometimes encountered when neurosarcoidosis is suspected (particularly the differentiation from neurotuberculosis if insufficient evidence of systemic sarcoidosis is found) are discussed.
Willigers
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Department of Neurology, Ziekenhuis De Wever & Gregorius, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
Koehler
P J
PJ
D000328:Adult; D000647:Amnesia / Q000209:etiology*; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004805:Ependyma; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000032:analysis / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D006099:Granuloma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009192:Myelography; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D000927:Anticonvulsants; D001786:Blood Glucose; D005947:Glucose