Abdominal Wall Weakness and Lumboabdominal Pain Revealing Neuroborreliosis: A Report of Three Cases
| Autor: | Thierry Deltombe, Thierry De Ronde, Walter Esselinckx, Eric Mormont, P. Laloux, Philippe Hanson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Abdominal pain medicine.medical_specialty Meningitis Bacterial Diagnosis Differential Abdominal wall Rheumatology medicine Humans Lyme Neuroborreliosis Borrelia burgdorferi Polyradiculopathy Abdominal Muscles Paresis biology business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Antibodies Bacterial Abdominal Pain Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Female medicine.symptom Differential diagnosis business Low Back Pain Neuroborreliosis Meningitis Biomarkers |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Rheumatology. 20:447-450 |
| ISSN: | 1434-9949 0770-3198 |
| Popis: | The authors report three cases of thoracic radiculoneuropathy disclosing neuroborreliosis. All three patients had low back and abdominal pain and two had marked abdominal wall paresis. EMG confirmed a motor involvement of the lower thoracic roots and CSF analysis revealed a lymphocytic meningitis in all three cases. Antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi were present in both the serum and the CSF. A favourable outcome was obtained in all three patients with appropriate antibiotherapy. The differential diagnosis of this misleading presentation is discussed. |
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