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Somatosensory evoked potentials in the evaluation of patients with stocking/glove paresthesias
Author(s) -
Smith T.,
Trojaborg W.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1989.tb03711.x
Subject(s) - somatosensory evoked potential , medicine , somatosensory system , anesthesia , tibial nerve , spastic , median nerve , stimulation , sensory system , myelopathy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , surgery , spinal cord , psychology , neuroscience , psychiatry , cerebral palsy
— We studied 10 patients referred for suspicion of peripheral neuropathy. They all complained of paresthesias with a stocking distribution. As EMG, motor and sensory nerve conduction studies failed to confirm the clinical diagnosis, we studied somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) following median and tibial nerve stimulation. The SEP findings were compared with controls and 10 spastic paraplegias. The evoked potential study revealed prolonged latencies of cortical potentials after tibial nerve stimulation in all the patients with paresthesias and were considered evidence of myelopathy