Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is an autosomal dominant nerve disease usually caused by 1,5 Mb deletion on chromosome 17p11.2.2-p12, the region where the PMP-22 gene is located. The patients with HNPP usually have relapsing and remitting entrapment neuropathies due to compression. We present a 14-year-old male who had acute onset, right-sided ulnar nerve entrapm...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of isolated findings of abnormalities leading to entrapment of the lateral plantar nerve and respective branches in patients complaining of chronic heel pain, whose magnetic resonance imaging exams have showed complete selective fatty atrophy of the abductor digiti quinti muscle. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective, analytical, and cross-sectional study. The...

Compressive and entrapment neuropathy of the peroneal nerve is the most common entrapment syndrome in the lower limbs, often caused by mechanical or dynamic compression of a segment of nerve at the level of the fibula head. Because of its special anatomic situation, external compression while under trauma or traction is quite easy. A case of entrapment neuropathy syndrome in a 33-year-old man t...

Nutcracker phenomenon and idiopathic IgA nephropathy Sir, Entrapment of the left renal vein between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery is a documented cause of both postural proteinuria as well as intermittent gross haematuria associated with left flank pain. Idiopathic IgA nephropathy typically presents with recurrent episodes of gross haema-turia, usually following an acute febrile ...