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DAVID C. LEWIS, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1965;116(4):518-522.

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COLLAGEN DISEASES affect the peripheral nervous system in two ways. One is a mononeuritis or mononeuritis multiplex that has been reported in periarteritis,^1-4 rheumatoid arthritis,⁵ rheumatoid arthritis with arteritis,^5-8 and lupus erythematosus.^9-12 The other form of peripheral-nerve involvement, a symmetrical polyneuritis, has been reported to occur in periarteritis,^1,13,14 scleroderma,^15,16 rheumatoid arthritis,^{2,5,6, 17,18} rheumatoid arthritis with arteritis,^5,8,17 and lupus erythematosus.^2,9,19,20 All told, there are about 200 well-documented cases of peripheral neuropathies in collagen disease, but only a few of these cases involved systemic lupus. However, a recent tabulation of 520 cases of lupus by Dubois and Tuffanelli,²¹ reporting an 11.7% incidence of some form of peripheral neuropathy with lupus, suggests that this manifestation may be more common than was heretofore thought. This communication presents a case of systemic lupus erythematosus with severe symmetrical polyneuritis and reviews the related literature.

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Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND

From the Division of Neurology (Department of Medicine), University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Highland View Hospital. Dr. Lewis, formerly Second-Year Assistant Resident in Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, is currently Clinical Fellow in Arthritis, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas.

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