Diagnostic nerve biopsy provides an instructive case history of the developmental arc of a laboratory test. Biopsy of peripheral nerves became a clinically applicable procedure around 40 years ago, ...

Johns Hopkins physicians report success in a small study of a modified skin biopsy that hastens the earlier diagnosis of an inherited and progressively fatal nerve disease and seems to offer a clearer ...

August 19, 2009 — Endometrial biopsy with detection of nerve fibers may diagnose endometriosis with reliability close to the accuracy of laparoscopy performed by experienced gynecologic laparoscopists ...

Muscle biopsy is a minor surgical procedure that involves making an incision in the skin to obtain a few small pieces of the underlying muscle for detailed histologic, histochemical, or biochemical ...

There’s no test to tell you if you have chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). Its symptoms are similar to Guillain-Barre syndrome, but unlike GBS, those symptoms. If you’ve had ...