Clinics in podiatric medicine and surgery
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Clin Podiatr Med Surg · Jan 1999
ReviewPeripheral nerve surgery of the foot and ankle. A review of current principles.
Planning for peripheral nerve surgery requires consideration of a multitude of factors, as well as a surgeon's meticulous skill and experience. With so little room for error, every advantage must be taken to optimize repair. Peripheral nerve surgery of the foot and ankle is an underappreciated area of neurosurgery with comparatively limited published reports and data. The authors reviewed the current trends in the surgical management of peripheral nerve injuries of the foot and ankle in the hope that an understanding of the basic principles involved will allow for future study of the results of such surgery by more surgeons who deal with these problems.
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This article is an overview of a variety of neurologic disorders that a podiatrist may encounter. Obviously, the topic is broad. A method of forming a differential diagnosis is attempted, rather than generating a list of disorders. ⋯ A brief review of the anatomy of the nervous system clarifies the origin of neurologic symptoms. Common neurologic symptoms and signs are discussed. The presentation of diseases that occur in specific systems, including lesions of the muscle, neuromuscular junction, nerve, plexus, nerve roots, anterior horn cells, spinal cord, and brain, are also described.