Clinically and electrodiagnostically pure sensory demyelinating polyneuropathy. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A 35-year-old woman presented with a 4 year history of stepwise sensory loss which progressed in an asymmetrical fashion (mononeuropathy multiplex) and developed into a relatively symmetric polyneuropathy which was purely sensory by clinical and electrodiagnostic criteria. Sural nerve biopsy revealed demyelination with axonal sparing. Extensive laboratory evaluation failed to reveal a definite cause. This case is unique among well-documented cases of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) in that it is purely sensory by both clinical and electrodiagnostic criteria, and may represent a distinct entity rather than an extension of the spectrum of CIDP.

publication date

  • January 1, 1996

Research

keywords

  • Demyelinating Diseases
  • Electrodiagnosis
  • Hypesthesia
  • Polyneuropathies

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0029998931

PubMed ID

  • 8737935

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 36

issue

  • 3