Ultrasonographic Evaluation of Peripheral Nerves
| Autor: | Jared M. Pisapia, Viviane Khoury, Gregory G. Heuer, Eric L. Zager, Tracy Ma, Zarina S. Ali |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Surgical planning 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Peripheral Nerve Injuries Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms Predictive Value of Tests medicine Humans Peripheral Nerves Carpal tunnel syndrome Ultrasonography Modality (human–computer interaction) medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Nerve Compression Syndromes Magnetic resonance neurography Peripheral Nervous System Diseases Magnetic resonance imaging Nerve injury medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Nerve compression syndrome Surgery Neurology (clinical) Radiology Neurosurgery medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | World Neurosurgery. 85:333-339 |
| ISSN: | 1878-8750 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wneu.2015.10.005 |
| Popis: | There are a variety of imaging modalities for evaluation of peripheral nerves. Of these, ultrasonography (US) is often underused. There are several advantages of this imaging modality, including its cost-effectiveness, time-efficient assessment of long segments of peripheral nerves, ability to perform dynamic maneuvers, lack of contraindications, portability, and noninvasiveness. It can provide diagnostic information that cannot be obtained by electrophysiologic or, in some cases, magnetic resonance imaging studies. Ideally, the neurosurgeon can use US as a diagnostic adjunct in the preoperative assessment of a patient with traumatic, neoplastic, infective, or compressive nerve injury. Perhaps its most unique use is in intraoperative surgical planning. In this article, a brief description of normal US nerve anatomy is presented followed by a description of the US appearance of peripheral nerve disease caused by trauma, tumor, infection, and entrapment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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