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Pathology and Genetics. A definitive, clinically oriented guide to the pathology of peripheral nerve disorders.
List of contents
Contributor list vii
Foreword x
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
1 Clinical assessment and classification of peripheral nerve diseases 1
Pierre Bouche
2 Combined muscle and nerve biopsy 12
Anne Vital
3 Cutaneous nerve biopsy 15
Claudia Sommer and Maria Nolano
4 Methods for examination of peripheral nerve 24
Juan M. Bilbao Douglas C. Anthony and Umberto De Girolami
5 Complications from nerve biopsy 30
Richard A.C. Hughes
6 Anatomy of the peripheral nerve 32
Rosalind King
7 Basic pathology of the peripheral nervous system 38
J. Michael Schröder and Joachim Weis
8 Introduction to the hereditary neuropathies 59
Joachim Weis and Jan Senderek
9 Autosomal dominant demyelinating Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT1) neuropathies 62
Jean-Michel Vallat and Stéphane Mathis
10 Autosomal dominant neuropathy of the axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2 72
J. Michael Schröder Joachim Weis and Jan Senderek
11 Autosomal recessive demyelinating or axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy 85
Kristl G. Claeys Martin Lammens Jan Senderek and Joachim Weis
12 Dominant and recessive intermediate CMT (CMTDI and CMTRI) 102
Joachim Weis Andreas Roos Istvan Katona Kristl G. Claeys and Jan Senderek
13 X-linked neuropathy of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 111
J. Michael Schröder and Jan Senderek
14 Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy 119
Rosalind King
15 Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy 126
Benjamin Ellezam
16 Familial amyloid polyneuropathy 131
Manuel Melo Pires Ricardo Taipa and António Guimarães
17 Peripheral neuropathies in mitochondrial disorders 138
Benoît Funalot
18 Giant axonal neuropathy 142
Robert Ouvrier and Manoj Menezes
19 Neuroaxonal dystrophy 146
Robert Ouvrier and Manoj Menezes
20 Peripheral nerve involvement in neurolipidoses 149
Robert Ouvrier and Manoj Menezes
21 Other hereditary neuropathies 158
Stéphane Mathis Meriem Tazir and Jean-Michel Vallat
22 Adult polyglucosan body disease 167
Alexander Lossos Or Kakhlon and Dov Soffer
23 Polyneuropathies associated with neurofibromatosis 172
Joachim Weis
24 Vasculitides 175
Michael P. Collins and P. James B. Dyck
25 Infectious and tropical neuropathies 196
Leila Chimelli and Jean-Michel Vallat
26 Sarcoid neuropathy 210
Anne Vital
27 Guillain-Barré syndromes and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy 214
Laurent Magy
28 Diabetic neuropathies 224
Robert E. Schmidt
29 Neuropathies in metabolic diseases other than diabetes mellitus 233
Martin Lammens
30 Toxic neuropathies 238
Sebastian Brandner
31 Polyneuropathy associated with a monoclonal gammopathy 247
Yuichi Kawagashira Haruki Koike Jean-Michel Vallat and Gen Sobue
32 Paraneoplastic peripheral neuropathies 259
Jean-Christophe Antoine
33 Neuropathies in malnutrition and alcoholism 267
Martin Lammens
34 Critical illness polyneuropathy 273
Douglas C. Anthony and David Lacomis
35 Non-vasculitic ischemic neuropathies 276
Robert E. Schmidt
36 Traumatic and compressive lesions of peripheral nerves 280
Carlos Ortiz-Hidalgo and Roy O. Weller
37 Localized hypertrophic neuropathy intraneural perineurioma polyneuropathy with perineurial cell hyperplasia and minifascicular neuropathy 287
Joachim Weis
38 Neurolymphomatosis and rare focal or multifocal lesions 291
Joachim Weis
Index 294
About the author
Jean-Michel Vallat, Neurology Laboratory, National Referral Center for Rare Peripheral Neuropathies, University Hospital, Limoges, France
Joachim Weis, Director, Institute of Neuropathology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, JARA Brain Translational Medicine, Germany
