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Report of a Case and Review of the Literature

FRANCOISE ROBERT, M.D.

Arch Neurol. 1962;7(5):442-449.

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Introduction

The systemic nature of sarcoidosis has been recognized for many years,¹ and its cutaneous, visceral, and lymphohematopoietic manifestations are well documented.² Peripheral³ and cranial nerve involvement are not infrequent, the latter being present in half of the patients with uveoparotid fever.⁴ Invasion of the central nervous system, however, is unusual. It was first demonstrated pathologically in 1907, by Tillgren, in a case of sarcoid chorioependymitis.⁵ Twenty-one clinically well-documented cases of sarcoidosis of the central nervous system have been published since in which the diagnosis was substantiated at necropsy and 7 cases in which it was confirmed by surgical biopsy. Of these 29 cases of central nervous system sarcoidosis, 10 clinically simulated brain tumor.^5-14

The following case is of interest because it presented a clinical picture of multiple brain tumors associated with disturbances of the hypothalamic function. Needle biopsy suggested intracranial sarcoidosis. At autopsy, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MONTREAL, CANADA

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 29, 1962.

Presented at the Meeting of the Canadian Association of Pathologists, Montréal, June 22, 1961.

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