Title
Human peripheral neurolymphomatosis
Other title
[LA NEUROLYMPHOMATOSES PERIPHERIQUE HUMAINE]
Date Issued
01 January 1983
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Abstract
Two further cases of human neurolymphomatosis are reported, and clinical, histopathologic and nosologic features of the affection reviewed with respect to findings in these 2 patients and in 7 other reported cases. Clinical manifestations are those of a flaccid ascending paralysis, associated in most cases with an asymmetrical abolition of tendon reflexes, violent muscular pains and sphincter disturbances, frequently preceded by a regressive cranial nerve palsy. Pathology shows infiltration of the peripheral nervous system (nerves, roots, and spinal ganglia) by lymphoid cells, sometimes associated with central nervous system (cord and brain) infiltrates in severe advanced cases. Involved nerves are increased in size. The disease could be a viral polyradiculoneuritis due to the virus of Marek's disease. Arguments in favor of this hypothesis include: the onset of the affection in subjects working in poultry farms under poor hygienic condition: the fact that clinical and histologic findings are similar to those in Marek's disease and the failure, after careful examination, to detect any malignant blood disorder or lymphoma in one of the cases studied.
Start page
703
End page
714
Volume
139
Issue
12
Language
French
OCDE Knowledge area
Neurología clínica Patología Virología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0020999858
PubMed ID
Source
Revue Neurologique
ISSN of the container
00353787
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