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Sonography of the Median Nerve in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Carlo Martinoli1, Angelo Schenone2, Stefano Bianchi3, Paola Mandich2, Claudia Caponetto2, Michele Abbruzzese2 and Lorenzo E. Derchi1

1 Cattedra di Radiologia "R," DICMI, Università di Genova, Largo Rosanna Benzi, 8, I-16132, Genova, Italy.
2 Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e della Visione, Università di Genova, I-16132, Genova, Italy.
3 Division de Radiodiagnostic, Hôpital Cantonal Huniversitaire, Rue Micheli du Crest, Geneve, Switzerland.



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  		Fig. 1. —Transverse 12-5-MHz sonogram of mid forearm of healthy 45-year-old woman. Nerve fascicles (arrowhead) can be clearly identified within median nerve (arrows) as rounded hypoechoic areas in hyperechoic background.

 


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  		Fig. 2. —Transverse 12-5-MHz sonogram of mid forearm (obtained at same magnification as Fig. 1) of 37-year-old woman with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A. Note hypertrophy of median nerve (arrows) and nerve fascicles (arrowhead) compared with those structures in healthy woman depicted in Figure 1.

 

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