TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Age Factors
KW - Aged
KW - Female
KW - Foot
KW - Hand
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Nylons
KW - Observer Variation
KW - Occupations
KW - Regression Analysis
KW - Sensory Thresholds
KW - Thailand
KW - Ulcer
AU - Birke J A
AU - Brandsma W
AU - Schreuders T A
AU - Piefer A
AB - <p>Sensory testing with Semmes-Weinstein filaments was conducted on: 112 normal subjects to determine the effects of age, gender and occupation on threshold perception, 27 Hansen's disease (HD) patients to determine inter-observer and intra-observer reliability of testing, and 101 patients with HD and a history of hand and/or foot ulceration to identify thresholds for injury risk. Filament thresholds were found related to age (p < 0.002) and occupation (p < 0.001) but not gender (p > 0.1). Inter-observer and intra-observer reliability was found to be high (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.88-0.93). The 4.93 (7.0-7.7 g) filament had 97% sensitivity and 100% specificity for identifying a history of foot injuries, and the 4.17 (1.2-1.6 g) filament had 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity for identifying hand injuries.</p>
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11221092?dopt=Abstract
CN - BIRKE 2000
DA - 2000 Sep
IS - 3
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Sensory testing with Semmes-Weinstein filaments was conducted on: 112 normal subjects to determine the effects of age, gender and occupation on threshold perception, 27 Hansen's disease (HD) patients to determine inter-observer and intra-observer reliability of testing, and 101 patients with HD and a history of hand and/or foot ulceration to identify thresholds for injury risk. Filament thresholds were found related to age (p < 0.002) and occupation (p < 0.001) but not gender (p > 0.1). Inter-observer and intra-observer reliability was found to be high (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.88-0.93). The 4.93 (7.0-7.7 g) filament had 97% sensitivity and 100% specificity for identifying a history of foot injuries, and the 4.17 (1.2-1.6 g) filament had 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity for identifying hand injuries.</p>
PY - 2000
SP - 291
EP - 8
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Sensory testing with monofilaments in Hansen's disease and normal control subjects.
UR - http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v68n3a07.pdf
VL - 68
SN - 0148-916X
ER -