Titlebook: Biopsy Diagnosis of Peripheral Neuropathy; Juan M Bilbao,Robert E Schmidt Book 2015Latest edition Springer International Publishing Switze

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The Peripheral Nerve Vasculature,er (up to 1 mm) and in location, both between and within (from side to side) individuals. The median and ulnar nerves, for example, have 1–11 (mean 3.24) and 2–19 (mean 7.75) such nutrient arteries in their forearm segments, respectively. After entering the nerve trunk, the nutrient vessels divide i

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Clinical Aspects of Peripheral Neuropathy,cal data from their neurological colleagues and wish to correlate this with biopsy findings. More information will be extracted from the biopsy when there is close contact between clinician and pathologist. Discrepancies between the clinical and histological impressions should result in reevaluation

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Infectious Diseases Causing Neuropathy,reat, as evidenced by the frequency of leprous neuropathy in the underdeveloped world and HIV-related neuropathies globally. The spectrum of pathogens affecting the peripheral nervous system ranges from prions and viruses to spirochetes and parasites; some of these are reviewed in this chapter. Lepr

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Leprous Neuropathy,prosy consistently remains a public health problem in 32 countries, mostly in Africa, Asia, and South America. The detection rate (figures from 2010) for leprosy is about 250,000 new cases being registered each year. The rare cases originating in North America are confined to certain regions in Loui

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Dysproteinemic Neuropathies,with paraproteinemia, is used throughout this chapter). In large series a paraprotein has been found in 5–10 % of otherwise idiopathic neuropathies; conversely, a neuropathy is seen in up to 58 % of patients with paraproteinemia (Read et al. 1978; Kelly et al. 1981a; Osby et al. 1982; Isobe and Osse

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