The sural nerve provides sensation to the back of the lower leg, including the calf, outer ankle, heel, and toes. The sural nerve aids in foot placement and balance by sensing pain, temperature, and ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Morphological and molecular abnormalities in skin biopsy tissue, consistency with sural nerve biopsy findings, and correlation with different ...

Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) stain of biopsy material was negative x 3. Sural nerve biopsy revealed a loss of axonal architecture with perifascicular inflammatory infiltrate and granulomata. Compare normal ...

Background: Sural nerve injuries are an evident risk especially of minimal-invasive surgical Achilles tendon repair. However, detailed anatomical studies focusing on the relationship of the sural ...

Diagnostic nerve biopsy provides an instructive case history of the developmental arc of a laboratory test. Biopsy of peripheral nerves became a clinically applicable procedure around 40 years ago, ...

The patient received a 5-day course of intravenous immunoglobulin with no objective improvement. He was then started on oral steroids. A lumbar puncture and sural nerve biopsy were planned; however, ...

Two patients are described with delayed presentation of a ruptured tendo Achilles, each exhibiting signs of sural nerve dysfunction. Recovery occurred in each case after operative repair. Neglected ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Human peripheral nerves -- all the nerves outside of the central nervous system -- are protected by the blood-nerve barrier. This is a tight covering of endothelial cells that ...

Researchers have detailed, for the first time, the normal human transcriptome of the blood-nerve barrier. This barrier -- a tight covering of endothelial cells -- maintains the microenvironment of ...