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Peripheral nerves are luxuriously vascularized resulting in a high safety margin. Counts revealed 32–72 (mean: 57) blood vessels with one arteria nu-tritia in the epineurium of human sural nerves (Fig. 239) [1006]. These, as well as the endoneurial blood vessels (the endoneurium contains mainly capillaries), show numerous pathognostic or nonspecific changes (angiopathies) which may or may not cause neuropathy due to ischemia or inflammation.
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Schröder, J.M. (2001). Angiopathic Neuropathies and Hypoxidosis. In: Pathology of Peripheral Nerves. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56808-4_13
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