[Assessment of peripheral nerves in vascular neuropathy with high-resolution ultrasonography ].

High-frequency sonography is a new method for the imaging of the peripheral nerves. In vasculitic neuropathy, pain or axonopathy can often prevent the lesion to be localized during electrophysiological examinations. There are only few informations in the literature about the ability of the sonography for localizing lesions in vasculitic neuropathy. High-frequency sonography helped in our two cases of mononeuritis multiplex and two cases of distal-symmetric polyneuropathy to put the diagnosis of a vasculitic neuropathy and was able to detect focal morphologic lesions which could not be identified electrophysiologically due to the axonopathy.