Introduction Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease with protean manifestations. The aetiology is not fully understood. Infectious agents are considered to potentially contribute to its pathogenesis.

OBJECTIVES To examine the comparative reliability and validity of three simple ways of rating upper limb tremor in patients with multiple sclerosis. METHODS Three examiners independently rated ...

Objective To clinically diagnose MM2-cortical (MM2C) and MM2-thalamic (MM2T)-type sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) at early stage with high sensitivity and specificity. Methods We reviewed ...

Correspondence to Dr Georgios Tsivgoulis, Second Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens 15344, Attica, Greece; tsivgoulisgiorg{at}yahoo.gr ...

Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA Dr Leo H Visser, Department of Neurology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, PO Box 90151, 5000 LC Tilburg, The Netherlands; ...

Six patients who presented with acute sensory neuropathy were studied. All patients underwent detailed clinical assessment along with electrophysiological tests and relevant laboratory investigations.

OBJECTIVES The detection of the protein 14–3–3 in the CSF has been shown to be a reliable and sensitive marker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Other brain-specific proteins such as ...

1 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK 2 Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, UK Correspondence to Dr ...

Correspondence to Jacqueline Palace, Department of Neurology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, West Wing Level 3, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX39DU, UK; jacqueline.palace{at}ndcn.ox.ac.uk ...

University Department of Neurosurgery, Box 167, Block A, Level 4, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK Correspondence to: Dr P J Kirkpatrick, University Department of Neurosurgery, Box 167, ...

Objectives To determine current epidemiology and clinical characteristics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt surgery, including revisions. Methods A retrospective, multicentre, registry-based study ...

2 Centre for Clinical Research (CCR), University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 3 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 4 School of Biomedical Sciences, ...