Identifier | walsh_2011_s3_c2 |
Title | ‘Tis Nobler in the Mind to Suffer... Or to Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles and by Opposing End Them? (Hamlet act 3, scene 1) |
Creator | Heather E. Moss |
Subject | Central Nervous System Diseases; Sarcoidosis; Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic; Papilledema; Scleritis; Diplopia |
History | A 41-year old female with a shadow over the left eye. |
Pathology | Spinal cord lesion composed of coalesced granulomata with central caseous necrosis surrounded by chronic inflammation. |
Disease/Diagnosis | Neurosarcoidosis |
Clinical | VA: 20/20 OD, 20/25 OS, declining to 20/400 |
Presenting Symptom | Shadow over left eye; Optic nerve edema |
Neuroimaging | CT; MRI |
Treatment | IV steroids; Anti-bacterial agents |
Date | 2011-02 |
References | 1. Mafee, Dorodi, Pai, Sarcoidosis of the eye, orbit and central nervous system, Radiologic Clinics of North America, 37, 73-87, 1999. 2. Tahmoush, Amir, Connor, Farry, DiDato, Ulhoa-CIntra, Vasas, Schwartzman, Israel, Patrick, CSF-ACE Activity in Probable CNS Neurosarcoidosis, Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases,19,191-197, 2002. 3. Gal, Koss, The Pathology of Sarcoidosis, Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 8, 445-451, 2002. 4. Karkhanis, Joshi, All that Caseates is not T.B., Lung India, 24,100-101, 2007. 5. Stickland-Marmol, Fessler, Rojiani, Necrotizing Sarcoid Granulomatosis Mimicking an Intracranial Neoplasm: Clinicopathologic Features and a Review of the Literature, Modern Pathology, 13, 909-913, 2000. |
Language | eng |
Format | application/pdf |
Type | Text |
Source | 43rd Annual Frank Walsh Society Meeting |
Relation is Part of | Case presented at the NANOS 2011 Walsh Session, February 5 |
Collection | Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library - Walsh Session Annual Meeting Archives https://novel.utah.edu/Walsh/index3.html |
Publisher | Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah |
Holding Institution | Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-6402 |
Rights Management | Copyright 2011. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright |
ARK | ark:/87278/s6tt4ttf |
Setname | ehsl_novel_fbw |
ID | 179012 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tt4ttf |