Superficial peroneal sensory and sural nerve conduction studies in peripheral neuropathy.
J Clin Neurosci
; 13(5): 547-9, 2006 Jun.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16678425
ABSTRACT
The objective of this study was to prospectively evaluate sensory nerve conduction studies (NCS) in the distal lower limbs in the electrodiagnosis of peripheral neuropathy. We prospectively studied 316 consecutive patients with surface stimulation and recording, in comparison with 90 control subjects. A total of 310 patients were found to have lower limb sensory NCS abnormalities. In these patients, the rate of detection of peripheral neuropathy with superficial peroneal NCS (88.5%) was significantly higher (P<0.001) compared with sural NCS (75%). The superficial peroneal NCS appeared to have a higher detection rate for peripheral neuropathy in our study, and its study can be adjunctive to sural NCS.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Peroneal Nerve
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Sural Nerve
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Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
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Electrodiagnosis
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Neural Conduction
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Observational_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
J Clin Neurosci
Journal subject:
NEUROLOGIA
Year:
2006
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Singapore