New technologies for the assessment of neuropathies

R Gasparotti, L Padua, C Briani, G Lauria - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2017 - nature.com
Technical advances are rapidly changing the clinical and instrumental approach to
peripheral nerve diseases. Magnetic resonance neurography, diffusion tensor imaging and …

Indications for neuromuscular ultrasound: Expert opinion and review of the literature

FO Walker, MS Cartwright, KE Alter, LH Visser… - Clinical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, dozens of applications have emerged for ultrasonography in
neuromuscular disorders. We wanted to measure its impact on practice in laboratories …

Diagnostic value of sonography in treatment-naive chronic inflammatory neuropathies

HS Goedee, WL van der Pol, JTH van Asseldonk… - Neurology, 2017 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To determine the diagnostic value of high-resolution ultrasound (HRUS) for
detection of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), Lewis-Sumner …

Histopathology and high-resolution ultrasound imaging for peripheral nerve (injuries)

V Ricci, C Ricci, G Cocco, F Gervasoni, D Donati… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Neuropathies are commonplace in clinical practice and ultrasound assessment
of the peripheral nerves is increasingly becoming a valuable diagnostic tool to support the …

Ultrasonographic identification of nerve pathology in neuralgic amyotrophy: enlargement, constriction, fascicular entwinement, and torsion

Z Arányi, A Csillik, K Dévay, M Rosero, P Barsi… - Muscle & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The aim of this study was to characterize the ultrasonographic findings on
nerves in neuralgic amyotrophy. Methods Fourteen patients with neuralgic amyotrophy were …

Nerve ultrasound in polyneuropathies

JA Telleman, A Grimm, S Goedee, LH Visser… - Muscle & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrasound can be used to visualize pathology in the peripheral nerves of patients with
polyneuropathy. Nerve enlargement is the most frequent pathology, but other abnormalities …

Ultrasound pattern sum score, homogeneity score and regional nerve enlargement index for differentiation of demyelinating inflammatory and hereditary neuropathies

A Grimm, D Vittore, V Schubert, C Lipski, B Heiling… - Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To investigate the use of nerve ultrasound in the differentiation between Charcot–
Marie Tooth hereditary neuropathy (CMT1) and chronic inflammatory demyelinating …

[HTML][HTML] Nerve ultrasound predicts treatment response in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy—a prospective follow-up

F Härtig, M Ross, NM Dammeier, N Fedtke, B Heiling… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
As reliable biomarkers of disease activity are lacking, monitoring of therapeutic response in
chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) remains a challenge …

The Ultrasound pattern sum score–UPSS. A new method to differentiate acute and subacute neuropathies using ultrasound of the peripheral nerves

A Grimm, BF Décard, H Axer, P Fuhr - Clinical Neurophysiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Ultrasound differentiation of neuropathies is a great challenge. We, therefore,
suggest a standardized score to operationalize differentiation between several acute and …

Nerve ultrasound for differentiation between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multifocal motor neuropathy

A Grimm, BF Décard, I Athanasopoulou… - Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Ultrasound is useful for non-invasive visualization of focal nerve pathologies probably
resulting from demyelination, remyelination, edema or inflammation. In patients with …