[Peripheral Nerve Imaging - from a Neurological Perspective for Surgeons].

[Peripheral Nerve Imaging - from a Neurological Perspective for Surgeons]. Zentralbl Chir. 2020 Jul 02;: Authors: Schreiber S, Vielhaber S, Schelle T Abstract Nerve ultrasound is a fairly new non-invasive method to visualise peripheral nerves and to detect peripheral nerve lesions. This technique can depict nerve compression syndromes and their aetiologies as well as fascicular torsions. It is also suitable for sonographically guided nerve interventions and for intraoperative navigation. The main advantage of nerve ultrasound is its capability for early diagnosis of severe traumatic nerve lesions that require immediate surgery. Neurologists further use this method to aid the diagnosis of different kinds of polyneuropathies. Within this review we introduce nerve ultrasound to surgeons from a neurological perspective. We focus on different peripheral nerve disorders that might need surgical interventions. Nerve ultrasound will lay the grounds to bring together different expertise in medicine and thus to establish interdisciplinary excellence centres for the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the peripheral nervous system. PMID: 32615625 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Zentralbl Chir Source Type: research