When do you obtain nerve biopsy to evaluate for vasculitic neuropathy in patients with distal symmetric polyneuropathies?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Excellent question. Vasculitic neuropathies can occur as part of systemic or isolated peripheral nerve vasculitis (PNSV). While the majority of PNSV presents as mononeuropathy multiplex (>50%), it is well known that the rest of the patients present either with confluent mononeuropathies (which be...
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at White Plains Hospital Physicians Associates On the topic of nerve biopsy for vasculitis, often...
at University of Minnesota Our surgeons do biopsies of both sural and superfi...
On the topic of nerve biopsy for vasculitis, often...
Our surgeons do biopsies of both sural and superfi...