Polyneuritis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Abstract

THE occurrence of neurologic symptoms and signs in the course of systemic lupus erythematosus is well known, but the majority of these are the result of involvement of the central nervous system. Only a few well studied cases of associated polyneuritis have been reported.^{1 , 2} The incidental finding of peripheral mononeuritis, usually preterminally, has been recorded in a few autopsied cases without any report of the autopsy protocol of the isolated clinical findings.^{3 , 4} Sedgwick and Von Hagen⁵ described the occurrence of polyneuritis in a case of systemic lupus erythematosus, but the data presented are insufficient to support the diagnosis. A second . . .