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By contrast, nerve compression injuries cause damage at the point of compression and can involve a mixed population of large- and small-diameter axons resulting in a decrease in both the amplitude ...
Sciatic Nerve Variations . ... When viewed in more detail, the sciatic nerve (in humans) is actually two nerves (the fibular or common peroneal nerve and the tibial nerve), which control different ...
When the source is the leg, a peroneal nerve compression operation is a very simple procedure much like a carpal tunnel release but at the knee. Patients who have diabetes, swollen legs, or a poor ...
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Intraoperative nerve stimulation in the awake patient is a readily available tool ... Recovery of deep cutaneous pain sensibility within the autonomous area of the nerve ... Superficial peroneal ...
Biopsy of the superficial peroneal nerve is ideal so that a muscle biopsy of the peroneus brevis muscle may be done simultaneously; other choices include sural or superficial radial sensory nerves ...
Biliary disease is the leading reason for acute abdominal surgery among older adults. The mortality rate for emergency cholecystectomy is four times higher than for an elective cholecystectomy.
A device that stimulates the median nerve and a D1 receptor antagonist are among the promising new treatment approaches for patients with Tourette syndrome (TS), according to an overview of new ...
Perineural involvement is a well-recognized clinicopathologic entity found in head and neck (H&N) cancers, including mucosal epithelial carcinomas and salivary gland malignancies. Perineural ...
Origin and evolution of deep brain stimulation. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience. 2011;5:1-5. ... Various types of neurostimulation, including deep-brain stimulation, peripheral nerve ...