[Quantitative study of isolated nerve fibers in alcoholic neuropathy (author's transl)].
This is a report of qualitative and quantitative study of nerve fibres in alcoholic neuropathy. In order to determine the frequency of segmental demyelination in alcoholic neuropathy, 10 nerve biopsies from 9 patients were studied by teasing; 100 consecutive fibres were isolated from each nerve and classified according to their morphology. This study confirms that segmental demyelination is a rare finding in this condition. Segmental demyelination of peripheral nerve fibres occurred in three cases and affected 6 to 8 per cent of the fibres. Wallerian degeneration of nerve fibres was found in all ten nerve biopsy specimens and affected 31 to 98 percent of the isolated fibres.
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000473:pathology*; D003711:Demyelinating Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000473:pathology; D011115:Polyneuropathies / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014855:Wallerian Degeneration
Etude quantitative des fibres nerveuses isolees dans les polynevrites alcooliques.