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Diagnostic value of nerve biopsy for atypical chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Evaluation of eight cases

Diagnostic value of nerve biopsy for atypical chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Evaluation of eight cases,10.1002/mus.10348,Muscle &

Diagnostic value of nerve biopsy for atypical chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Evaluation of eight cases   (Citations: 42)
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Journal: Muscle & Nerve - MUSCLE NERVE , vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 478-485, 2003
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    • ... In some cases, CIDP may be impossible to differentiate from CIAP on the basis of clinical and electrophysiological examinations, a situation that requires a nerve biopsy ...

    Carmen Cifuentes-Diazet al. Nodes of Ranvier and Paranodes in Chronic Acquired Neuropathies

    • ...A NB has to be discussed on a case-by-case basis and so will be reserved to clinically and/or electrophysiologically atypical cases including patients with unexcitable nerves [71]...

    Jean-Michel Vallatet al. Nerve biopsy: requirements for diagnosis and clinical value

    • ...Initially the upper limbs are affected in an asymmetric manner. Eventually the lower limbs and cranial nerves are also involved. The patients with Lewis-Sumner syndrome respond to both corticosteroids and IVIg.Areflexia or hyporeflexia is a typical feature of CIDP, but occasionally normal or even brisk reflexes have been reported in the early stage. Tendon reflexes were either normal or brisk in 3 of our patients whose duration of illness was 24, 30 and 36 weeks. Such results have been reported in other studies as well. In a study of 8 atypical CIDP patients, 1 had retained reflexes [...

    U. K. Misraet al. A Comparison of Clinically Atypical with Typical Chronic Inflammatory ...

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