[Sudden-onset coma revealing neurosarcoidosis].
BACKGROUND
Central nervous system involvement is uncommon in sarcoidosis, particularly in cases discovered in circumstances described in our case.


METHODS
A 38-year-old man with a history of pulmonary sarcoidosis diagnosed in 1991 was treated by budesonide. The clinical course was generally favorable until 1995 when the patient complained of rapid onset headache which suddenly progressed to coma. The patient died 26 days later.


CONCLUSIONS
The course of the neurological manifestations was remarkable in this case of neurosarcoidosis. The anatomic localization was also unusual with 3 distinct foci outside the central nervous system.
Lalanne
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E
SAMU/SAU-Centre Hospitalier de la Côte Basque, Bayonne.
Bonnemaison
N
N
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003128:Coma / Q000209:etiology*; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed