Chronic sarcoid myopathy manifesting only as dysphagia and dysarthria in an 84-year-old woman

Ayako Nishimura; Ryotaro Ikeguchi; Masaki Kobayashi; Megumi Takeuchi; Yuko Shimizu; Hideto Saigusa; Kazuo Kitagawa

doi:10.1016/j.clineuro.2018.07.018

Chronic sarcoid myopathy manifesting only as dysphagia and dysarthria in an 84-year-old woman

Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2018 Oct:173:58-60. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2018.07.018. Epub 2018 Jul 26.

Authors

Ayako Nishimura¹, Ryotaro Ikeguchi², Masaki Kobayashi³, Megumi Takeuchi⁴, Yuko Shimizu⁵, Hideto Saigusa⁶, Kazuo Kitagawa⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: ayako246@me.com.
² Department of Neurology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: ikeguchi.ryotaro@twmu.ac.jp.
³ Department of Neurology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: kobayashi.masaki@twmu.ac.jp.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: mhoriba@nij.twmu.ac.jp.
⁵ Department of Neurology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: yshimizu@nij.twmu.ac.jp.
⁶ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yachiyo Medical Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Yachiyo, Chiba, Japan. Electronic address: s-hideto@nms.ac.jp.
⁷ Department of Neurology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: kkitagawa@nij.twmu.ac.jp.

PMID: 30086429
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2018.07.018

No abstract available

Keywords: Bulbar symptom; Cricopharyngeal myotomy; EMG using bipolar hooked-wire electrodes; Sarcoid myopathy; Videofluoroscopic examination of swallowing.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged, 80 and over
Deglutition Disorders / diagnosis
Deglutition Disorders / pathology
Deglutition Disorders / surgery*
Dysarthria / diagnosis
Dysarthria / pathology
Dysarthria / surgery*
Female
Fluoroscopy / methods
Humans
Muscular Diseases / pathology*
Sarcoidosis / diagnosis
Sarcoidosis / surgery*
Treatment Outcome