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Benign cystic lesions of peripheral nerves

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A patient with multiple cystic changes of the sural nerve, and another with a tarsal tunnel syndrome caused by invasion of the median plantar nerve by a ganglion in the tarsal tunnel, are presented. It is believed that there are three different kinds of benign cystic involvement of the peripheral nerves, multiple cystic degeneration of the nerve itself, invasion of nerves from outside by a ganglion and formation of simple cysts within the nerve proper, presumably as a result of trauma.

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Présentation de deux malades, l'un porteur des lésions kystiques multiples au niveau du nerf saphène externe et l'autre un syndrome du canal tarsien dû à l'envahissement du nerf plantaire interne par un kyste synovial. L'auteur rappelle qu'il existe trois variétés différentes d'atteinte kystique bénigne des nerfs périphériques: dégénérescence kystique multiple du nerf lui-même, envahissement du nerf depuis l'extérieur par un kyste synovial et formation d'un simple kyste à l'intérieur du nerf, conséquence probable d'un traumatisme.

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Høgh, J. Benign cystic lesions of peripheral nerves. International Orthopaedics 12, 269–271 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317822

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