Naohiro Mouri, Haruki Koike, Yuki Fukami, Mie Takahashi, Satoru Yagi, Soma Furukawa, Masashi Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Kishimoto, Kenichiro Murate, Takamasa Nukui, Tamaki Yoshida, Yosuke Kudo, Mikiko Tada, Yuichi Higashiyama, Hirohisa Watanabe, Yuji Nakatsuji, Fumiaki Tanaka, Masahisa Katsuno
BACKGROUND: Despite the suggestion that direct compression by granuloma and ischemia resulting from vasculitis can cause nerve fiber damage, the mechanisms underlying sarcoid neuropathy have not yet been fully clarified. METHODS: We examined the clinicopathological features of sarcoid neuropathy by focusing on electrophysiological and histopathological findings of sural nerve biopsy specimens. We included 18 patients with sarcoid neuropathy who had non-caseating epithelioid cell granuloma in their sural nerve biopsy specimens...
January 2024: European Journal of Neurology