A 22 year old woman with recently diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus presented with subacute progressive areflexic paraparesis, electrophysiologically identified as a pure axonal polyradiculopathy ...

Overall, nerve biopsies have provided evidence of significant axonal degeneration in large sensory fibres of patients with CIPN (table 2). However, nerve biopsies are currently very rarely performed ...

If an abnormal area is seen, a small piece of tissue will be removed (biopsy) and sent to a lab to be looked at carefully. A biopsy is the best way to tell for certain if an abnormal area is a ...