Ajinkya Sonambekar1, Nikhil Gupta2, Akanksha Swadi3, Laxmikant Ramkumarsingh Tomar4. 1. Physician at the University College of Medical Sciences and at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in Dilshad Garden, Delhi, India. ajinkya.sonambekar@gmail.com. 2. Fellow in Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. nik.gupta4u@gmail.com. 3. Radiologist at Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College in Pune, India. akanksha.swadi@gmail.com. 4. Resident in the Neurology Department at the Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research in Delhi, India. drlaxmikantucms@yahoo.com.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic inflammatory disease with myriad clinical manifestations. Neurologic involvement in sarcoidosis is uncommon. Peripheral neuropathic presentations include mononeuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex, and generalized sensory, motor, autonomic, and sensorimotor polyneuropathies. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of carpal tunnel syndrome caused by sarcoidosis in a 30-year-old woman. Other causes of carpal tunnel syndrome were ruled out. The patient responded well to the standard line of corticosteroid treatment and wrist splinting. DISCUSSION: Carpal tunnel syndrome caused by sarcoidosis is a rare presentation. The mechanism of neurologic involvement in sarcoidosis is not clear.
INTRODUCTION:Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic inflammatory disease with myriad clinical manifestations. Neurologic involvement in sarcoidosis is uncommon. Peripheral neuropathic presentations include mononeuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex, and generalized sensory, motor, autonomic, and sensorimotor polyneuropathies. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of carpal tunnel syndrome caused by sarcoidosis in a 30-year-old woman. Other causes of carpal tunnel syndrome were ruled out. The patient responded well to the standard line of corticosteroid treatment and wrist splinting. DISCUSSION: Carpal tunnel syndrome caused by sarcoidosis is a rare presentation. The mechanism of neurologic involvement in sarcoidosis is not clear.