Complications following sural and peroneal nerve biopsies

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1271-1272

  Hilton, David A ^a   Jacob, John ^a   Househam, Liz ^a   Tengah, Connie ^b  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB DYSESTHESIA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL PATIENT; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PARESTHESIA; PATHOLOGY; PERONEAL NEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERONEAL NERVE; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURAL NERVE; VASCULITIS;

EID: 35748969300     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.116368     Document Type: Article

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