anatomical localisation
Last reviewed 01/2018
The pathological processes affecting the various components of the peripheral nervous system are:
- sensory and motor neurone disorders:
- damage may be diffuse, multifocal or unifocal
- from proximal to distal the main conditions are:
- anterior horn cell degeneration affecting motor function only
- radiculopathies
- plexopathies
- neuropathies:
- mononeuropathy
- mononeuritis multiplex
- polyneuropathy
- autonomic neuropathy
- neuromuscular junction disorders:
- presynaptic
- postsynaptic
- muscle disorders:
- myopathies
anterior horn cell degeneration and motor neurone disease
mononeuritis multiplex (multiple mononeuropathy)