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CAUSE AND CLINICAL–NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL PICTURE OF PERONEAL NEUROPATHY
Author(s) -
Aprile I.,
Padua L.,
Meloni A.,
D'amico P.,
Tonali P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of the peripheral nervous system
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1529-8027
pISSN - 1085-9489
DOI - 10.1046/j.1529-8027.2000.00513-2.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , kneeling , prosthesis , neurophysiology , surgery , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , psychiatry , optics
We retrospectively analysed 40 patients with peroneal neuropathy (PN) referred to our EMG laboratory during the last 4 years. Aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence and causes of PN. Moreover, the relationship between causes and clinical‐neurophysiological picture was assessed and a follow‐up was performed. Preliminary results showed that, in most cases, association between PN and surgical event was present (27,5%): unexpectedly, the higher occurrence of PN was observed in patients who underwent operation in the hip region (prosthesis). In 20% of cases, a damaging event was not identified. Erroneous postures (kneeling and crossing leg) caused PN in 12% of cases. Prolonged allurement was related in 10% of PN (50% of these in intensive care unit admission ). PN was not significantly related to gender. The age range of the patients was extremely wide: from 7 to 80 years (mean 50 years). In more than 50% of cases, neuroapraxic block was demonstrated to neurophysiological evaluation.