NOTE ON NEURITIC SCIATICA.

Sciatica.

The mundane malady sciatica has been known to physicians since antiquity.1 It is pain that radiates from the buttock downward along the course of the sciatic nerve,2 but the term has been used indiscriminately for a variety of back and leg symptoms. Although sciatica has several causes, Mixter and Barr extended previous observations to establish in 1934 that the principal source is compression ...

Comment on: Sciatica in the Young

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Diagnosis of pure neuritic leprosy

About 4-8% of all leprosy is clinically limited to the peripheral nerves. Diagnosing leprosy in the absence of typical dermatological features is challenging and requires histological confirmation. This is often achieved using nerve biopsy. Limitations of this technique are sampling error, low sensitivity and permanent nerve deficit. Recent improvements in sampling techniques, using fine needle...

Sciatica: A Fresh Study

Following a historical survey of the views generally held regarding the essential lesion underlying sciatica, the writer elaborates his own view that sciatica is really an affection of the hip-joint, rheumatic or gouty in origin. The steps by which he arrives at this opinion are ingenious and reasonable. They are anatomical and clinical, and are fully considered in the book, which should be con...

Lumbago, Sciatica, Etc.