We describe a 38-year-old woman with a predominantly sensory axonal polyneuropathy in whom a nerve biopsy demonstrated sarcoid granulomas. The neuropathy did not respond to oral steroid therapy but there was a rapid and repeated response to intravenous immunoglobulin, which gradually diminished over subsequent treatments, but remained beneficial. The systemic sarcoidosis remained active. Muscle Nerve 29: 447–450, 2004

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