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 ...

Immunofixation electrophoresis did not detect M protein. Sural nerve biopsy showed notable edematous changes in the subperineurial space, this was most apparent in 5 of 9 nerve fascicles. In addition, ...

Objective To evaluate the clinical and pathological correlations characterising each clinical subtype of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). Methods We assessed 106 ...

Not surprisingly, skin biopsy analysis seemed to be more sensitive than sural nerve conduction studies for diagnosing small-fiber neuropathy. 62 One study, 85 however, showed that in patients with ...

A new study has assessed the usefulness of sural nerve biopsies in the diagnosis of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). The study, published in Clinical Neurophysiology, found ...

We first checked the myelin structure in biopsy samples of the sural nerve from 3 diabetic neuropathy patients (male age 65, female age 49, and male age 38). Immunofluorescence staining for ...

It is often misdiagnosed; tissue biopsy is needed for a d ... and Dr. Elske Hoitsma for providing the image of the sural nerve biopsy. ...

Researchers found more severe neuropathy — specifically, small fiber damage to the skin and cornea — in patients with type 1 diabetes who experienced painful diabetic neuropathy as opposed to those ...

Sural nerve biopsy findings in chronic inflammatory axonal polyneuropathy. (A) Modified trichrome stain. Frozen section. ×200 Prominent myelin-digestion chamber representing active axonal degeneration ...

Increased cross-sectional area (CSA) of sural nerve, documented by ultrasound (US), has been revealed in small fibers neuropathy, ... Sommer C. Nerve and skin biopsy in neuropathies. Curr Opin Neurol.

Herrero San Martín A, Alcalá-Galiano A. Schwannoma of the posterior tibial nerve in a patient with schwannomatosis and a novel mutation of the LZTR1 gene. Neurologia. 2019;S0213-4853(19)30114-8. [Epub ...