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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2000;69:431 doi:10.1136/jnnp.69.4.431
  • Editorial commentary

Sural nerve biopsy

  1. J G MCLEOD
  1. Department of Medicine, University of Sydney
  2. Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
  1. jmcl7953{at}mail.usyd.edu.au

    Sural nerve biopsy has been a well established diagnostic procedure for the investigation of peripheral neuropathies for over 30 years and the techniques and indications were described by Dyck and Loufgren at the Mayo Clinic1 and Thomas.2 Although indications and guidelines for sural nerve biopsy have been described3 and retrospective studies of its value have been published, the first prospective study of the procedure to determine its usefulness in influencing diagnosis and treatment and the complications is reported …

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