Full Description
This book comprehensively evaluates the morphological and clinical aspects of the peripheral nervous system and its involvement in various pathologies. It thoroughly describes its topography, morphology, its peculiarities - that are missing in anatomical and surgical textbooks- and their possible influence on the clinical picture. Their preoperative diagnosis is difficult, even impossible. Figures and line drawings enrich the view of structures that so far. have only been partially documented. The authors' descriptions are based on clinical observations and systematic work on the 246 human bodies of healthy people who died a sudden or violent death (most often in car accidents). Dissection is the most precise method to elucidate the range of variability, which is often largely responsible for the failure of surgical treatments. Their recognition can minimize damage to nerve structures, and the acquired knowledge can help clarify clinical signs and symptoms in surgery or internal medicine. The data presented in this publication will however be useful for traumatologists, orthopedists, spinal surgeons, neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons, as well as neurologists and neurophysiologists, and to all those who are dealing with or are interested in this field.
Contents
Chapter 1 Variability in the peripheral nervous system.- Chapter 2 Definition of the terms about the peripheral nervous system.- Chapter 3 Differences in the structure of the autonomic nervous system and the structure of the followed material.- Chapter 4 Differences in the structure of the brachial plexus.- Chapter 5 Variations and lesions of the brachial plexus at the level of nerve trunks.- Chapter 6 Variations and lesions of the brachial plexus at the level of nerve fascicles.- Chapter 7 Variations and lesions at the level of the terminal branches of the brachial plexus.- Chapter 8 Differences in the structure of the lumbosacral plexus.- Chapter 9 Intraspinal (extradural and intradural) spinal nerve variations.- Chapter 10 Intracranial intradural variations of the cranial nerves.- Chapter 11 The autonomic ganglia of the cranial nerves.- Chapter 12 Sources of nerve supply to the vessels of the extremities and peculiarities of the deep vessels of the lower limb innervation.- Chapter 13 Sources of innervation of the upper limb superficial and deep veins.-Chapter 14 Signs of the spinal nerve lesions on the extremities.- Chapter 15 Sources of the nerve veins.- Chapter 16 Hematomas of Peripheral Nerves.- Chapter 17 Summary of our contribution.- Chapter 18 Supplementary figures.
