[Sarcoidosis of the central nervous system]

Report on a 31-year-old man who fell ill from a meningoencephalitis in Boeck's disease. The course was subacute, in which case at first meningitic, later on focal encephalomeningitic symptoms stood in the first place. In the post-mortem examination a severe epitheloid-cellular granulomatosis of brain, spinal cord and their meninges was established. An affection of the lungs, of the bronchopulmonary lymphatic nodes, liver and spleen was also to be verified. It is referred to the diagnostic difficulties and the evident variability of the clinical picture of a cerebromeningeal sarcoidosis.