An atypical case of mononeuritis multiplex in primary Sjogren's syndrome

An atypical case of peripheral nervous system (PNS) involvement in Sjogren's syndrome is presented in a 63 year-old woman. Symptoms of an entrapment neuropathy were the first manifestation of the systemic disease and they were subsequently coupled to those of a mononeuritis multiplex. Clinical and laboratory signs for the diagnosis of Sjogren's syndrome became subsequently overt. The mononeuritis multiplex remained clinically limited to the upper limbs and characterized by unusually severe motor symptoms which progressed up to the development of a final complete deplegia. By contrast, sensory symptoms at the upper limbs remained mild over the entire course of the disease and the lower limbs revealed a subclinical sensory-motor damage only during the late stage.