Preferred Label : femoral neuropathy;

MeSH definition : Disease involving the femoral nerve. The femoral nerve may be injured by ISCHEMIA (e.g., in association with DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES), nerve compression, trauma, COLLAGEN DISEASES, and other disease processes. Clinical features include MUSCLE WEAKNESS or PARALYSIS of hip flexion and knee extension, ATROPHY of the QUADRICEPS MUSCLE, reduced or absent patellar reflex, and impaired sensation over the anterior and medial thigh.;

MeSH synonym : femoral neuropathies; nerve disease, femoral; mononeuropathy, femoral; femoral nerve diseases; femoral nerve disease; nerve diseases, femoral; neuropathy, femoral; femoral mononeuropathy; femoral mononeuropathies;

CISMeF synonym : mononeuropathies, femoral; neuropathies, femoral;

MeSH Hyperonym : Femoral Nerve Dysfunctions; Nerve Dysfunction, Femoral;

MeSH hyponym : femoral neuritis; Femoral Neuritides; Neuritis, Femoral; Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment; Bernhardt-Roth Syndrome; Bernhardt Roth Syndrome;

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Disease involving the femoral nerve. The femoral nerve may be injured by ISCHEMIA (e.g., in association with DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES), nerve compression, trauma, COLLAGEN DISEASES, and other disease processes. Clinical features include MUSCLE WEAKNESS or PARALYSIS of hip flexion and knee extension, ATROPHY of the QUADRICEPS MUSCLE, reduced or absent patellar reflex, and impaired sensation over the anterior and medial thigh.

http://www.cochrane.org/fr/CD004159
2013
United Kingdom
France
French
review of literature
nerve compression syndromes
treatment outcome
french abstract
femoral neuropathy

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