Nerve conduction study is essential in the diagnosis of focal neuropathies and diffuse polyneuropathies. Age, height and body mass index (BMI) can affect nerve velocities as reported by previous studies. We studied the effect of these factors on median, ulnar, common peroneal and sural nerves among healthy Malay subjects. We observed slowing of nerve conduction velocities (NCVs) with increasing...

Associations among measures of median, ulnar, and sural nerve conduction and age, skin temperature, sex, and anthropometric factors were evaluated in a population of 105 healthy, asymptomatic adults without occupational exposure to highly repetitive or forceful hand exertions. Height was negatively associated with sensory amplitude in all nerves tested (P less than 0.001), and positively associ...

We report a child presenting with severe demyelinating myelitis complicated with critical illness polyneuropathy. This previously healthy 8-month-old boy presented with acute superior limb weakness, absent tendon reflexes, and respiratory failure. Spinal magnetic resonance imaging showed an extensive cervical demyelinating lesion. Spinal cord trauma was suspected and high doses of dexamethasone...

Functional recovery after nerve lesions in the peripheral nervous system requires the accurate regeneration of axons to their original target end organs. This paper examines axonal regeneration of the primate median nerve lesioned at the wrist over nerve gap distances of up to 50 mm. Nerve gaps were bridged by either a sural nerve graft or a biodegradable collagen nerve guide tube, and recovery...

PURPOSE To compare the results of Achilles tendon repair using a standard open procedure or a minimally invasive technique using a double-ended needle, and to determine whether the latter technique reduces the incidence of sural nerve injury and soft-tissue complications. METHODS Between the period February 1995 and September 2000 inclusive, 68 consecutive patients with acute Achilles tendon ...

Moosa, A., and Dubowitz, V. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 674. Peripheral neuropathy in Cockayne's syndrome. A detailed study has been made of a typical case of Cockayne's syndrome. An associated peripheral neuropathy has been demonstrated by slow nerve conduction velocities and by evidence of segmental demyelination on sural nerve biopsy. Cockayne's syndrome is probably a leuco...

A case of sensory perineuritis is described, affecting individual cutaneous nerves in the extremities and with a chronic inflammatory exudate confined to the perineurium in a sural nerve biopsy. No cause was found. The condition slowly resolved on steroid treatment.

Figure 1. Sural nerve grafts following end-to-end neurorrhaphies to the frontal (F), zygomatic (Z), buccal (B), marginal mandibular (M), cervical (C) branches, and the facial nerve trunk (FN). DESCRIPTION A 45-year-old man with a deep lesion to the parotid (shown to be a basal cell carcinoma on biopsy) underwent a radical parotidectomy following discussions in a multidisciplinary meeting. Durin...

In order to elicit the usefulness of sural nerve biopsy we retrospectively evaluated the courses of disease of every patient, who underwent this procedure in our department between January 1995 and March 2000. Sixty seven patients with the suspected diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy could be included. From these chart reviews and patient questionings were done. Inflammatory-demyelinating neuro...