Management of Nerve Injuries (with Emphasis on Nerve Action Potential (NAP) Recordings)

Abstract

There are three relatively large categories of peripheral neuropathies that may be helped by the neurosurgeon with operative experience with nerves. These are nerve injuries, entrapments, and tumors. A number of good texts address these entities. Of course, there are also less frequent occasions where the neurosurgeon is involved in working up and managing a medical neuropathy [6, 7, 45]. This is usually done by nerve and/or muscle biopsy and under exceptional circumstances, operative exploration for suspected but not proven neural pathology.