Manuel Ramos-Casals, Roberto Pérez-Alvarez, Belchin Kostov, Ricardo Gómez-de-la-Torre, Carlos Feijoo-Massó, Joel Chara-Cervantes, Blanca Pinilla, Andrés González-García, José-Salvador Garcia-Morillo, Miguel López-Dupla, Begoña De-Escalante, Javier Rascón, Patricia Perez-Guerrero, Mariona Bonet, Gracia Cruz-Caparrós, Ana Alguacil, José-Luis Callejas, Eva Calvo, Cristina Soler, Angel Robles, Borja de Miguel-Campo, Pedro Oliva-Nacarino, Jorge Estela-Herrero, Lucio Pallarés, Pilar Brito-Zerón, Yolanda Blanco
To analyze the frequency and clinical phenotype of neurosarcoidosis (NS) in one of the largest nationwide cohorts of patients with sarcoidosis reported from southern Europe. NS was evaluated according to the Diagnostic Criteria for Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System Sarcoidosis recently proposed by Stern et al. Pathologic confirmation of granulomatous disease was used to subclassify NS into definite (confirmation in neurological tissue), probable (confirmation in extraneurological tissue) and possible (no histopathological confirmation of the disease)...
July 2, 2021: Scientific Reports