OBJECTIVE To compare results of quantitative sudomotor axon reflex testing (QSART), dorsal sural, and sural sensory nerve testing in patients with painful sensory neuropathy (PSN). METHODS Fifty-six patients with symptoms and neurologic examinations consistent with PSN who had both autonomic and nerve conduction studies were identified from 376 patients with a clinical diagnosis of painful ne...

A case of olecranon fracture treated with tension band wiring presented to us symptoms ulnar nerve injury. The was explored and injury identified between two heads flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU) distal the level cubital tunnel. injured repaired using sural grafts patient improved as witnessed on regular follow-up.

UNLABELLED Intraneural ganglion cysts are rare in occurrence and most commonly involve the peroneal nerve at the fibular neck. We present a case of a traumatically induced intraneural ganglion cyst of the sural nerve that developed after a nondisplaced posterior malleolus ankle fracture. The intraneural ganglion cyst was connected to the subtalar joint by its articular branch and ascended sever...

Sensory Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute demyelinating neuropathy that presents clinically with involvement of the sensory peripheral nerve only. To date, <10 cases of pure sensory GBS have been reported; thus, the clinical and pathological features of sensory variant GBS are yet to be well characterized. The current study reports the case of a 43-year-old female that presented with ac...

Neural fibrolipomatous hamartoma is a rare benign tumour commonly involving the median nerve. Other less frequently involved nerves include the ulnar, radial, brachial plexus, superficial peroneal nerve, inferior calcaneal nerve and median plantar nerve. Involvement of sural nerve has not been reported in the available literature so far. A three-year-old female child presented with a painless s...

Although oculomotor nerve palsy, which is common in diabetes, is considered an ischemic mononeuropathy, the susceptibility of the oculomotor nerve to ischemic insult is not well understood. We analyzed the density of endoneurial microvessels of the oculomotor nerve and compared it with that of the sural nerve in non-diabetic patients. The mean vascular density of the oculomotor nerve (23 ± 8.4/...

The sciatic nerve, as the largest branch of the sacral plexus, leaves the pelvis through the greater sciatic foramen beneath the piriform muscle. Afterwards, it divides into the tibial and the common peroneal nerves, most frequently at the level of the upper angle of the popliteal fossa. Higher level of the sciatic nerve division is a relatively frequent phenomenon. The tibial nerve gives muscu...

Sural nerve biopsy may, in selected cases, give valuable information in the investigation of patients with polyneuropathy. The prevalence and severity of patient discomfort after fascicular nerve biopsy was investigated in 67 patients by a mailed questionnaire. A lasting (greater than 6 months) significant discomfort was found in 6 patients (11%), in 3 of these the symptoms were graded as sever...

A 33-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukemia developed a rapidly progressive painful neuropathy with symmetric sensorimotor and autonomic deficits 7 weeks after chemotherapy. Nerve conduction studies showed axonal sensorimotor neuropathy. Because of the rapidly progressive course, a sural nerve biopsy was performed, which showed intraneural leukemic infiltrates (figure). This case illustra...

Single unit potentials were recorded from sural and medial gastrocnemius nerves. Action potential amplitude, integrated area and half-width (duration) were approximately proportional to conduction velocity, raised to the powers 1.5, 1 and -0.5 respectively with the sural nerve, and 2, 1.5 and -0.5 for the medial gastrocnemius nerve. These empirical relationships were applied to the computation ...