Painful Traumatic Neuromas in Subcutaneous Fat: Visibility and Morphologic Features With Ultrasound.

Objectives: Subcutaneous neuromas usually result from trauma and may lead to dissatisfaction in patients with a trigger point, loss of sensitivity in the relevant territory of innervation, and spontaneous neuropathic pain. Confirming clinically suspected cases of neuroma may prove difficult. The objective of this study was to evaluate the visibility and morphologic features of traumatic subcutaneous neuromas of the limbs with ultrasound (US).

Anatomical study of the medial plantar proper digital nerve using ultrasound.

Purpose: To determine whether ultrasound allows precise assessment of the course and relations of the medial plantar proper digital nerve (MPPDN).

Materials And Methods: This work was initially undertaken in six cadaveric specimens and followed by a high-resolution ultrasound study in 17 healthy adult volunteers (34 nerves) by two musculoskeletal radiologists in consensus. Location and course of the MPPDN and its relationship to adjacent anatomical structures were analysed.

Propofol-remifentanil anesthesia for upper airway endoscopy in spontaneous breathing patients: the ENDOTANIL Randomized Trial.

Background: The ENDOTANIL Trial aimed at comparing an association of target-controlled infusion (TCI) of remifentanil and propofol to TCI of propofol alone on the clinical conditions during pan endoscopy for assessment of the upper airway (pan endoscopy) performed under tubeless general anesthesia.

Methods: This double-blind, single center, parallel, randomized, placebo-controlled trial was conducted in a French tertiary level of care, from June 2009 to February 2013. Patients scheduled for elective pan endoscopy were anesthetized using propofol TCI combined to either remifentanil TCI (effect-site concentration=1.

Entrapment and traumatic neuropathies of the elbow and hand: An imaging approach.

Ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging currently offer a detailed analysis of the peripheral nerves. Compressive and traumatic nerve injuries are the two main indications for imaging investigation of nerves with several publications describing the indications, technique and diagnostic capabilities of imaging signs. Investigation of entrapment neuropathies has three main goals, which are to confirm neuronal distress, search for the cause of nerve compression and exclude a differential diagnosis on the entire nerve.