neuritis
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Neuritis (, from the Greek ), is inflammation of a nerve or the general inflammation of the peripheral nervous system. Inflammation, and frequently concomitant demyelination, cause impaired transmission of neural signals and leads to aberrant nerve function.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Neuritis
- Medical condition.medication
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- Medical condition.diagnosis
- Physical exam, electrodiagnostic studies, MRI, nerve biopsy
- Medical condition.causes
- Autoimmune disease, infection, physical injury, paraneoplastic syndrome
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Pain, paresthesia, paresis, anesthesia, paralysis
- Medical condition.specialty
- Neurology
- Medical condition.caption
- Sciatic Nerve in acute polyneuritis (top) and Ulnar nerve in polyneuritis leprosa (bottom)
- Medical condition.image
- Diseases of the nervous system (1910) (14586524238).jpg
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Research
21,611 papers- Vestibular neuritis.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 1995
- Vestibular neuritis.Advances in oto-rhino-laryngology · 1999
- Extensive neuritis ossificans of the sciatic nerve: Systematic review and illustrative case.Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia · 2022
- Optic chiasmal neuritis.Neurology · 1991
- Neuritis.British medical journal · 1948
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- ICPC 2 ID
- N94
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C116381
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- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1803
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8 sectionsContents
- Causes
- Infectious
- Autoimmune
- Paraneoplastic
- Metabolic
- Toxic
- Diagnosis
- References
Neuritis (, from the Greek ), is inflammation of a nerve or the general inflammation of the peripheral nervous system. Inflammation, and frequently concomitant demyelination, cause impaired transmission of neural signals and leads to aberrant nerve function.
Neuritis is often conflated with neuropathy, a broad term describing any disease process which affects the peripheral nervous system. However, neuropathies may be due to either inflammatory or non-inflammatory causes, and the term encompasses any form of damage, degeneration, or dysfunction, while neuritis refers specifically to the inflammatory process.