Biopsy Diagnosis of Peripheral Neuropathy

• Main Authors: Bilbao, Juan M. (Author), Schmidt, Robert E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Peripheral nerve analysis is a challenging task for pathologists, given the advent of new diagnoses and techniques of analysis and the impact of molecular genetics. This book presents a simple, logical method for constructing a differential diagnosis based on pathology and clinical presentation. It...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Clinical Correlation
• Normal Peripheral Nerve Structure
• Basic Pathological Mechanisms
• Vasculitic Neuropathy
• Diabetic neuropathies
• Skin Biopsies
• Metabolic Neuropathies
• Inflammatory and Immune-Mediated Neuropathies
• Neuropathies Associated with Infectious Diseases
• Amyloid neuropathy
• Genetic Neuropathies
• Dysproteinemias
• Toxin-induced neuropathies
• Miscellaneous neuropathies.