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Disseminated enteropathy-type T-cell lymphoma: cauda equina syndrome complicating coeliac disease.

Doran M, Du Plessis DG, Larner AJ

Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Lower Lane, Fazakerely, Liverpool L9 7LJ, UK.

A patient with coeliac disease developed a progressive cauda equina syndrome in the 2 months prior to his death, for which no cause could be identified. At post-mortem examination this proved to be due to disseminated enteropathy-type T-cell lymphoma. Although rare, disseminated enteropathy-type T-cell lymphoma should enter the differential diagnosis in any patient with coeliac disease developing new neurological signs.

Published 5 October 2005 in Clin Neurol Neurosurg, 107(6): 517-20.
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