Motor Branch Biopsy of the Pronator Teres Muscle in a Patient with Painful Forearm Neuropathy

Motor Branch Biopsy of the Pronator Teres Muscle in a Patient with Painful Forearm Neuropathy

Histological evaluation of a peripheral nerve is often the final diagnostic work-up for a neuropathy of unknown origin, and a distal sensory nerve is usually biopsied. Here, we report the case of a female patient with painful unilateral neuropathy in the upper arm. According to the histological eval...

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Main Authors: Tomomi Kinoshita, Kazuhiro Fukushima, Ryu-ta Abe, Yuka Ogawa, Michitaka Nakagawa, Nagaaki Katoh, Takuhiro Yoshida, Hiroyuki Kato, Shu-ichi Ikeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2014-07-01
Series:Case Reports in Neurology
Subjects:
Motor nerve branch biopsy
Multiple mononeuropathy
Muscle biopsy
Nerve biopsy
Painful neuropathy
Pronator teres
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/365883

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