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© 1995 British Society for Rheumatology

case-report

PHRENICUS PALSY IN PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS

M. A. BIRK and E. L. ZEUTHEN

Department of Internal Medicine, Vejle Municipal Hospital 7100 Vejle, Denmark

Correspondence to: Correspondence to: M. A. Birk, Department of Internal Medicine C, Odense University Hospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.

We report the course of a patient with progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS), who died of respiratory failure. Her condition was aggravated by the terminal development of unilateral Phrenicus palsy (PP), which has not previously been reported among the multiple presentations of scleroderma. PP should be borne in mind as one of the potential causes of decreasing lung function in scleroderma.

KEY WORDS: Progressive systemic sclerosis, Peripheral neuropathy, Phrenicus palsy


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