Peripheral nerve compression associated with low-voltage electrical injury without associated significant cutaneous burn.

Peripheral nerve compression associated with low-voltage electrical injury without associated significant cutaneous burn.
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周围神经受压与低压电损伤相关,但不伴有明显的皮肤烧伤。

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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
A. L. Dellon
A. L. Dellon
中科院分区:
医学1区
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作者:
Mark A Smith;T. Muehlberger;A. L. Dellon

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Although peripheral-nerve injury has been described as clearly related to electrical injury, that electrical injury is usually associated with third- and often fourth-degree burns. The report presented here describes three cases of low-voltage electrical injury with associated peripheral-nerve symptoms but without clinically significant cutaneous burns. The symptoms and clinical findings resembled peripheral-nerve compression. The presence of these symptoms and findings in the upper- and lower-extremities and the presence of bilateral involvement suggest a systemic electrical injury that resembles a peripheral neuropathy. Symptoms were relieved by the decompression of nerves at multiple sites in each extremity. Perineurial fibrosis was identified at the time of nerve decompression. It is proposed that the electrical injury causes maximal heat production at areas of minimal limb cross-sectional area. In these areas, the peripheral nerve is in close proximity to bone and fibrous tissue. This results in perineurial fibrosis and symptoms of a compressive peripheral neuropathy.
DOI: 10.1016/0141-5425(90)90005-8
发表时间: 1990
期刊: Journal of biomedical engineering
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作者:
McCreery,DB;Agnew,WF;Bullara,LA;Yuen,TG
通讯作者: Yuen,TG