TY - JOUR
KW - Action Potentials
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Australia
KW - Ethnic Groups
KW - Evoked Potentials
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Median Nerve
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Muscles
KW - Neural Conduction
KW - Radial Nerve
KW - Sural Nerve
KW - Tibial Nerve
KW - Ulnar nerve
AU - McLeod J G
AU - Hargrave J C
AU - Walsh J C
AU - Booth G C
AU - Gye R S
AU - Barron A
AB - <p>Motor and sensory nerve conduction studies have been performed on the peripheral nerves in the upper and lower limbs of 30 control subjects, and 36 subjects with leprosy from the Aboriginal population of the Northern Territory of Australia. Impairment of conduction was demonstrated in the vast majority of clinically abnormal nerves, and a large proportion of nerves which appeared clinically to be uninvolved. In a third group of subjects, abnormal conduction was demonstrated in a significant number of nerves which were considered to be clinically enlarged but in whom the diagnosis was initially in doubt. The majority of these patients were subsequently proven to have leprosy. It is concluded that nerve conduction studies are of considerable value in the diagnosis and management of leprosy.</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/1171828?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1975 Jan-Mar
IS - 1
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Motor and sensory nerve conduction studies have been performed on the peripheral nerves in the upper and lower limbs of 30 control subjects, and 36 subjects with leprosy from the Aboriginal population of the Northern Territory of Australia. Impairment of conduction was demonstrated in the vast majority of clinically abnormal nerves, and a large proportion of nerves which appeared clinically to be uninvolved. In a third group of subjects, abnormal conduction was demonstrated in a significant number of nerves which were considered to be clinically enlarged but in whom the diagnosis was initially in doubt. The majority of these patients were subsequently proven to have leprosy. It is concluded that nerve conduction studies are of considerable value in the diagnosis and management of leprosy.</p>
PY - 1975
SP - 21
EP - 31
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Nerve conduction studies in leprosy.
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC493187/pdf/jnnpsyc00148-0010.pdf
VL - 43
SN - 0148-916X
ER -