Ana Caroline Siquara de Sousa

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2015

Study types

  • article 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • mesh:D004715 2
  • endometriosis 2
article 2015
Neurosurgical focus ·doi:10.3171/2015.6.focus15208

Sciatic nerve endometriosis (EM) is a rare presentation of retroperitoneal EM. The authors present 2 cases of catamenial sciatica diagnosed as sciatic nerve EM. They propose that both cases can be explained by perineural spread of EM from t…

review 2015
Clinical anatomy (New York, N.Y.) ·doi:10.1002/ca.22617

Endometriosis (EM) is an infrequent cause of peripheral neuropathy, most commonly sciatic. Perineural spread has recently been introduced as an alternate explanation for cases of lumbosacral or sciatic nerve EM. We performed a literature re…