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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• KIMURA, J

Titel

Long and short of nerve conduction measures: reproducibility for sequential assessments

Ist Teil von

• Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry, 2001-10, Vol.71 (4), p.427-430

Ort / Verlag

England: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A longer path has an advantage in accumulating all the segmental abnormalities, which individually might not show a clear deviation from the normal range. [...]in general, the longer the segment under study, the more evident the conduction delay for a diffuse process. 11 Assume a nerve impulse conducting at a rate of 0.2 ms/cm (50 m/s); a 20% delay for a 10 cm segment is only 0.4 ms, whereas the same change for a 100 cm segment amounts to 4.0 ms, an obvious increase for easy detection. [...]electrophysiological studies serve well only when conducted as an extension of the history and physical examination, which provide an overall orientation for subsequent physiological evaluation.