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Isolated peripheral nerve disease is extremely rare.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p>The authors here report the case of an 80-year-old woman who presented with progressive right upper-extremity weakness due to right radial neuropathy discovered upon electrodiagnostic testing. Magnetic resonance neurography (MRN) revealed a focal lesion within the right radial nerve. She underwent radial nerve exploration and excision of an intraneural mass consisting of amyloid on histopathology, with mass spectrometry analysis diagnostic for AL amyloidosis. Noninvasive testing and clinical history did not suggest systemic involvement. This unique case of isolated peripheral nerve AL amyloidosis in the absence of signs and symptoms of systemic disease is described, and the literature demonstrating peripheral nerve involvement in AL amyloidosis is reviewed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3171\/2015.10.jns151095","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,16]],"date-time":"2016-01-16T00:49:00Z","timestamp":1452905340000},"page":"598-602","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A case of isolated amyloid light-chain amyloidosis of the radial nerve"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"125","author":[{"given":"Ron Ron","family":"Cheng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosciences, Division of Neurosurgery; and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ramin","family":"Eskandari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosciences, Division of Neurosurgery; and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Cynthia 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