Traumatic fascicular neuroma.
A 72-year-old man had developed amiodarone neuropathy. He was found, at biopsy, to have a fascicular neuroma of his right sural nerve, unassociated with his underlying neuropathy, apparently due to blunt trauma, as electroneurographic needling of this nerve could safely be ruled out by the patient and his physicians. Such fascicular neuromas, which may remain without sensory deficits, may develop at an unknown frequency, and may only be uncovered by biopsy--or autopsy--in a coincidental neuropathic process.
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Abteilungen für Neuropathologie, Universität Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany.
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D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009463:Neuroma / Q000473:pathology*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013127:Spinal Nerves / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000648:ultrastructure*