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We report two cases of acute urinary retention secondary to benign inflammatory nervous disease. Case 1 is in a 48-year-old male who was diagnosed with aseptic meningitis. Case 2 is in a 67-year-old male who was diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. These two cases differred in specific mechanism of the disease, but both shared symptoms of temporal voiding disturbance due to sacral radiculopathy (Elsberg syndrome). This condition is extremely rare, but should be kept in mind because delayed treatment can lead to permanent impairment.
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PMID:[Two cases of urinary retention secondary to benign inflammatory nervous diseases]. 1992 55

The impairment of the nervous system is the main clinical presentation of chronic Lyme borreliosis. Frequency and characteristics of neuroborreliosis in Russia are still under-investigated. The article contains the analysis of 160 cases of chronic Lyme borreliosis with detailed descriptions of different neurologic syndromes - radiculopathy, polyneuropathy, encephalopathy and encephalomyelitis. Epidemiology of this disease as well as its laboratory and instrumental diagnosis are discussed. Extraneural signs and symptoms of late stages of neuroborreliosis are presented. The results of antibacterial treatment of different forms of chronic neuroborreliosis are outlined.
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PMID:[Clinical and instrumental characteristics of chronic neuroborreliosis]. 2323 23