Thalidomide-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy

Abstract
• Sensory neuropathies developed in three of four patients with prurigo nodularis who had been treated with thalidomide. The serum samples of the patients who had neuropathy produced morphologic changes in cultured dorsal root ganglion cells. These observed changes support the postulate that thalidomide induces primary neuronal degeneration. (Arch Dermatol 1984;120:1466-1470)