Elsberg syndrome

Evidence-based neurology checklist on elsberg syndrome: Pathology This is acute or subacute bilateral lumbosacral radiculitis It is usually associated with lower spinal cord myelitis Causes Clinical features Differential diagnosis Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) spine: features Cerebrospinal…

Pathology

  • This is acute or subacute bilateral lumbosacral radiculitis
  • It is usually associated with lower spinal cord myelitis

Causes

Clinical features

Differential diagnosis

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) spine: features

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis

Treatment

References

  1. Savoldi F, Kaufmann TJ, Flanagan EP, Toledano M, Weinshenker BG. Elsberg syndrome: a rarely recognized cause of cauda equina syndrome and lower thoracic myelitis. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm 2017; 4:e355.
  2. Saito H, Ebashi M, Kushimoto M, et al. Elsberg syndrome related to varicella zoster virus infection with painless skin lesions in an elderly woman with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ther Clin Risk Manag 2018; 14:1951-1954.
  3. Abe M, Araoka H, Kimura M, Yoneyama A. Varicella zoster virus meningoencephalitis presenting with elsberg syndrome without a rash in an immunocompetent patient. Intern Med 2015; 54:2065-2067.
  4. Hawkes MA, Toledano M, Kaufmann TJ, Rabinstein AA. West Nile neuroinvasive disease presenting as Elsberg syndrome. Neurologist 2018; 23:152-154.
  5. Furugen M, Yamashiro S, Tamayose M, et al. Elsberg syndrome with eosinophilic meningoencephalitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Intern Med 2006; 45:1333-1336.
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