Abstract
Sensory-predominant, painful, idiopathic neuropathies are a common clinical problem. In this retrospective study of 11 patients with such a neuropathy, we found axonal loss in 9, with multifocal axonal loss in 4 patients; there were large perivascular mononuclear inflammatory infiltrates (>50 cells) in 4 and smaller infiltrates (10-20 cells) in 4. These findings suggest that some cases of this neuropathy may be due to autoimmune vasculopathy and therefore may respond to immunotherapy.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 413-416 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Muscle and Nerve |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2002 |
Keywords
- Cryptogenic neuropathy
- Idiopathic painful neuropathy
- Idiopathic sensory neuropathy
- Inflammatory neuropathy