OCULOMOTOR PALSY IN DIABETES MELLITUS - A CLINICO-PATHOLOGICAL STUDY
OCULOMOTOR PALSY IN DIABETES MELLITUS - A CLINICO-PATHOLOGICAL STUDY
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DOI:
10.1093/brain/93.3.555
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发表时间:
1970-01-01
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影响因子:
14.5
通讯作者:
FISHER, CM
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作者:
ASBURY, AK;ALDREDGE, H;FISHER, CM
ALTHOUGH physicians have long suspected that certain neuropathies occurring in association with diabetes mellitus were" vascular" in origin, pathological evidence to substantiate this point has been meagre. Dreyfus, Hakim and Adams (1957) reported an autopsied case of recent third nerve palsy, the major pathological finding of which was a focal zone of myelin sheath and axon destruction in the intracavernous portion of the nerve with fusiform enlargement and an increase in connective tissue. An occluded vessel was not found in their extensive serial sections; however, they concluded, on the basis of the histopathological characteristics, that the lesion was ischaemic in origin; they also postulated that the responsible vascular disorder was most likely an occluded nutrient vessel remote from the nerve. Raff et al.(1968) showed in another serial section study, in this instance of a proximal, asymmetrical, primarily motor neuropathy, that the affected nerve trunks were studded with small infarcts. A single occluded intraneural artery seemed to account for three infarcts out of the thirty studied serially, but no other occluded vessels could be found to account for the other twenty-seven lesions. A more subtle vascular change was found to relate more closely with areas of infarction, namely thickening and Tiyalinizatiori of arteriolar and capillary waHs with intramural PAS-positive material and luminal narrowing. On the basis of this cumulative" experience, it has been suggested that both the proximal, asymmetrical, primarily motor neuropathy and the cranial mononeuropathy are vascular in origin, and should be thought of as ischaemic mononeuropathy or mononeuropathy multiplex in association with diabetes mellitus (Raff and Asbury, 1968).