title: [A case of abortive type of Heerfordt syndrome associated with paralysis of trigeminal nerve].
abstract: We report a 39-year-old female admitted for fever. She showed physical findings of bilateral granulomatous uveitis, swelling of the bilateral parotid glands, and paralysis of the left second branch of the trigeminal nerve. Her chest X-ray showed evidence of bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy. We performed biopsy of her parotid gland, and leading to a diagnosis of noncaseating epithelioid granuloma characterized by lymphocyte and multinucleated giant cell invasion. Therefore, she was diagnosed with the abortive type of Heerfordt syndrome which is a subtype of sarcoidosis. This is the only case associated with paralysis of the trigeminal nerve without paralysis of facial nerves to be reported in Japan.
authors: Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine.
authors: Kazuhiro
authors: K
authors: Otani
authors: Kentaro
authors: K
authors: Noda
authors: Taro
authors: T
authors: Ukichi
authors: Isamu
authors: I
authors: Kingetsu
authors: Daitaro
authors: D
authors: Kurosaka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010243:Paralysis / Q000150:complications*; D020433:Trigeminal Nerve Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D014608:Uveoparotid Fever / Q000175:diagnosis*