The sural nerve provides sensation for the outer side of the foot and once it is removed, sensation will most likely be permanently lost, or possibly just altered, on the outer side of the foot.

The sural nerve, positioned beneath the skin’s surface in the back of your lower leg, plays a critical role in your body’s sensory network. As a component of the peripheral nervous system ...

Sural nerve and gastrocnemius muscle biopsy (Figures 5-8) showed transmural inflammation and necrosis of medium and small blood vessels, suggestive of active necrotizing vasculitis.

The dermal nerve-fiber diameter was consistently small (commonly <7 μm), whereas sural nerves can be large or small in diameter. Myelin internodes from glabrous skin were approximately 70 μm ...

Specimen from a Sural-Nerve Biopsy Showing Axonal Degeneration with Vacuolization (Arrowheads) of the Nerve Fibers (Panel A, Hematoxylin and Eosin, ×200) and a Sagittal, ...

A biopsy of the sural nerve, fixed and stained with 1 per cent osmium tetroxide vapors by the method of Schultz and Rudneff 6 and embedded in paraffin, revealed nerve fibers with loss of myelin ...

Biopsy of a nerve such as the sural nerve is an invasive procedure and should be a 'one-per-customer' undertaking; only in extraordinary situations should it be necessary or appropriate to ...

Compare normal sural nerve biopsy (Figures 11-14) with the case patient's (Figures 15-18). (Enlarge Image) Figures 11-12. (l to r) Examples of a normal sural nerve biopsy ...

Being unable to feel pain sounds enticing, but people with congenital analgesia frequently bite their tongues, break bones or burn themselves without being aware of it, sometimes leading to severe ...