TY - JOUR KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Female KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Leprosy, Borderline KW - Leprosy, lepromatous KW - Leprosy, Tuberculoid KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Movement Disorders KW - Neuritis KW - Pain KW - Sensation AU - Nores J M AU - Redondo A AU - Vernerey C AU - GENTILINI M AB -

One hundred and fourteen surgical operations for neuritis were performed in 50 patients coming from areas where leprosy is endemic. The neurological signs included pain and/or sensorimotor deficit. The surgical procedure consisted of transposition and/or neurolysis. Pain subsided in 86 per cent of the cases, and the sensorimotor deficit was reduced in 78.9 per cent. The effects of surgery on pain always appeared on recovery from anaesthesia or on the day following the operation. The results were particularly good in young subjects and in patients with neurological signs of recent onset. Poor results were observed only in cases of old and painless neuritis with motor deficit, the latter being usually unchanged. Few studies have been published on large series of leprous neuritis patients treated surgically. Surgery in such cases must be associated with a medical treatment, failing which the patient is exposed to relapses.

BT - Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983) C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2978308?dopt=Abstract CN - NORES1988 DA - 1988 Oct 08 IS - 34 J2 - Presse Med LA - fre N2 -

One hundred and fourteen surgical operations for neuritis were performed in 50 patients coming from areas where leprosy is endemic. The neurological signs included pain and/or sensorimotor deficit. The surgical procedure consisted of transposition and/or neurolysis. Pain subsided in 86 per cent of the cases, and the sensorimotor deficit was reduced in 78.9 per cent. The effects of surgery on pain always appeared on recovery from anaesthesia or on the day following the operation. The results were particularly good in young subjects and in patients with neurological signs of recent onset. Poor results were observed only in cases of old and painless neuritis with motor deficit, the latter being usually unchanged. Few studies have been published on large series of leprous neuritis patients treated surgically. Surgery in such cases must be associated with a medical treatment, failing which the patient is exposed to relapses.

PY - 1988 SP - 1756 EP - 9 T2 - Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983) TI - [Surgical treatment of leprous neuritis. The results in 114 operations]. VL - 17 SN - 0755-4982 ER -