8 Special Topics....................................................................... 36 8.1 Spinal Cord ............................................................................ 36 8.2 Plexus of Nerves.................................................................... 39 8.3 Peripheral Nerves Histology and Functional Anatomy ....... 39 8.4 Intraoperative Radiotherapy .......................

High-resolution MR imaging of peripheral nerves is becoming more common and practical with the increasing availability of 3T magnets. There are multiple reports of MR imaging of peripheral nerves in compression and entrapment neuropathies. However, there is a relative paucity of literature on MRN appearance of diffuse peripheral nerve lesions. We attempted to highlight the salient imaging featu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate abnormal prion protein (PrP) deposition in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) in human prion diseases. METHODS Eight patients with prion diseases were examined: three with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), two with dural graft associated CJD (dCJD), one with Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) with a PrP P102L mutation (GSS102), and two with a P105L...

BACKGROUND Injuries of peripheral nerves are common and usually are part of acute traumatic injuries to the limbs. Damage to peripheral nerves may be extensive. Microsurgery has improved the rate of recovery of these injuries, but some problems remain to be solved. The purpose of this investigation was to study the long-lasting effects of hyperbaric oxygenation on peripheral nerves after transe...

Schwannomatosis or neurilemmomatosis has been used to describe patients with multiple nonvestibular schwannomas with no other stigmata of neurofibromatosis type-2 (NF-2). In our case, schwannomatosis, multiple schwannomas were present in a 21-yr-old woman with no stigmata or family history of NF-1 or NF-2. She had no evidence of vestibular schwannoma or other intracranial tumors. Multiple perip...

D Eguiluz-Ordoñez and colleagues publish their experience with 40 rats, divided into four groups of 10. All rats underwent sharp sciatic nerve transection and repair (interfascicular and epineural) followed by various lengths of follow-up. Two of the groups were euthanized at 7 weeks, with half being treated with hyperbaric oxygen twice daily for 10 days at 2.0 atmospheres (absolute) at 90 minu...