Abstract
We report a 39-year-old female admitted for fever. She showed physical findings of bilateral granulomatous uveitis, swelling of the bilateral parotid glands, and paralysis of the left second branch of the trigeminal nerve. Her chest X-ray showed evidence of bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy. We performed biopsy of her parotid gland, and leading to a diagnosis of noncaseating epithelioid granuloma characterized by lymphocyte and multinucleated giant cell invasion. Therefore, she was diagnosed with the abortive type of Heerfordt syndrome which is a subtype of sarcoidosis. This is the only case associated with paralysis of the trigeminal nerve without paralysis of facial nerves to be reported in Japan.
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