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Perineuritis in acute lyme neuroborreliosis
- Source :
- Muscle & Nerve. 39:851-854
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2009.
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Abstract
- Perineuritis is an unusual cause of direct peripheral nerve injury. We describe the clinicopathologic features of a 56-year-old man with mononeuritis multiplex due to Lyme disease; sural nerve biopsy demonstrated florid perineuritis. Treatment with intravenous ceftriaxone resulted in marked neurologic improvement. This study supports the notion that perineuritis forms part of the pathogenesis in acute Lyme neuroborreliosis.
- Subjects :
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Nerve biopsy
medicine.diagnostic_test
Physiology
business.industry
Mononeuritis Multiplex
Neuritis
Sural nerve
medicine.disease
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Lyme disease
Lyme Neuroborreliosis
Physiology (medical)
Peripheral nerve injury
Medicine
Neurology (clinical)
business
Neuroborreliosis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0148639X
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Muscle & Nerve
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........02d19c28b9987a12312fc69c15bdc323