PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES AND HEMOPATHIES

In our experience, the incidence of an association between peripheral neuropathy and hemopathy is around 7%. The corresponding nerve involve ment may reveal or complicate a known hemopathy. The exact cause-effec t relationship is not always easy to identify. We discuss here the per ipheral nerve complications of acute leukemia, myeloproliferative diso rders, monoclonal dysglobulinemia, non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma an d Hodgkin's disease. The peripheral neuropathy arising in cases of mon oclonal dysglobulinemia, non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma have most be nefited from ultrastructural examination and advances in immunological and immunocytochemical techniques. Accurate determination of the lesi onal mechanism should help devise appropriate therapeutic strategies.