Main description:

This atlas illustrates pathological changes of peripheral nerves covering experimental and human, light and electron microscopic, immunohistochemical, morphometric and moleculargenetic aspects. Basic general pathologic reactions are shown as well as characteristic alterations in a large number of specific diseases affecting the peripheral nervous system (PNS) primarily or secondarily. The 1050 illustrations are of diagnostic significance for those studying peripheral nerves at the miscroscopic or ultrastructural level, and for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurobiologists, and electrophysiologists trying to understand the underlying structural changes causing the clinical signs and symptoms of a variety of diseases and disorders.

Contents:

Epidemiology and Classification of Peripheral Nerve Disorders.- General Lesions and Reactions of Peripheral Nerves.- Nutrition Deficiency.- Toxic Neuropathies.- Neuropathies Due to Systemic Metabolic Disturbances.- Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies.- Hereditary Neuropathies with Predominantly Sensory and Autonomous Disturbances.- Further Recessive Disorders Involving Peripheral and Central Neuronal Systems.- Hereditary and Sporadic Neuropathies with Special Localization.- Inflammatory Neuropathies (Neuritis, Polyneuritis, Vasculitis, Perineuritis; Sarcoidosis).- Paraneoplastic Syndromes.- Angiopathic Neuropathies and Hypoxidosis.- Association of Neuropathy with Predominating Diseases of the Central Nervous System.- Tumors of the Peripheral Nervous System.