Recurrent nerve palsy due to Lyme disease: Report of two cases.]

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Recurrent nerve palsy due to Lyme disease: Report of two cases.]

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Martzolff L, Bouhala M, Dukic R, Saraceni O, Wilhelm JM, Bombaron P,

Kieffer P.

 

Service de médecine interne et endocrinologie, hôpital Emile-Muller, 87,

avenue d'Altkirch, BP 1070, Mulhouse cedex, France.

 

 

INTRODUCTION: Neuroborreliosis can be a difficult diagnosis which requires

epidemiologic, clinical and biologic arguments.

 

 

CASE REPORTS: We report two patients who presented with a recurrent

laryngeal nerve palsy with positive Lyme serology and favorable outcome after

antibiotic therapy. In one case, a lymphocytic meningitis with intrathecal

production of specific antibodies was evidenced.

 

 

CONCLUSION: Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy is an uncommon manifestation

of neuroborreliosis. Lyme serology is an important tool when neurologic

disorder occurs because of an atypical course of Lyme disease.

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Société nationale française de médecine interne (SNFMI).

Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

 

PMID: 20079561