background: the standard method for repair of an injured peripheal nerve is epineural repair with separate sutures. herein we describe a method in which the nerve is sutured with continous sutures. in fact this method has not been utilized for nerve repair previously and our purpose was to compare it to the standard method. if it proved to be successful it would replace the standard method in c...

Diabetes Mellitus, a highly prevalent and rapidly increasing metabolic disease, can cause several serious complications including visual damage blindness caused by ocular nerve damage. Nerve fiber degeneration might occur because of the accumulation glycation end-products in Descemet’s membrane nerve. The severity corneal diabetic keratopathy be examined through regeneration nerves, specificall...

The occurrence of pathological changes in synaptic endings has been recognized in a number of disease conditions by early investigators (1-3). In cases of Friedreich's disease, Estable (4) showed that the degeneration of the presynaptic fiber is accompanied by hypertrophy, hyperargentophilia, and detachment of the neuropodia and other nerve endings, from the synaptic junctions. There is an abun...

The occurrence of pathological changes in synaptic endings has been recognized in a number of disease conditions by early investigators (1-3). In cases of Friedreich's disease, Estable (4) showed that the degeneration of the presynaptic fiber is accompanied by hypertrophy, hyperargentophilia, and detachment of the neuropodia and other nerve endings, from the synaptic junctions. There is an abun...

STUDY DESIGN This study is to investigate the intraradicular inflammation induced by mechanical compression using in vivo model. OBJECTIVES The relationship between the intraradicular edema and nerve fiber degeneration induced by mechanical compression was determined in the nerve root. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Recently some studies reported that mechanical compression increased microvascu...

This study seeks to extend the observations of previous studies of projection of primary afferent fibres from the forelimb nerves and muscles to the external cuneate nucleus (ECN) of mammals using a neurotoxic lectin, Ricinus communis agglutinin (RCA) to achieve chemical ganglionectomy of the dorsal root ganglia. Following intraneural injection of RCA into the three main forelimb nerves, namely...

We present examples of nerve fibre layer changes in diseases thought to affect primarily the outer retinal layers. These disease processes include cone-rod dystrophies, rod-cone dystrophies, juvenile macular degeneration (Stargardt's disease) and fundus flavimaculatis, vitelliform macular dystrophy, and Leber's congenital amaurosis. All were associated with alterations in the retinal nerve fibr...

Intraparotid facial nerve neurofibromas are a rare entity, and are grossly and histopathologically distinct from the comparatively more prevalent schwannomas. We report a rare case of an intraparotid facial nerve neurofibroma with intratemporal extension in a 48-year-old female. The tumor was surgically excised with cable grafting of the facial nerve. Electroneurography may eventually assist in...