Superficial peroneal sensory and sural nerve conduction studies in peripheral ne

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J Clin Neurosci. 2006 May 4

Superficial peroneal sensory and sural nerve conduction studies in

peripheral neuropathy.

Lo YL, Xu LQ, Leoh TH, Dan YF, Tan YE, Nurjannah S, Ratnagopal P.

Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore

General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore 169608, Singapore.

The objective of this study was to prospectively evaluate sensory

nerve conduction studies (NCS) in the distal lower limbs in the

electrodiagnosis of peripheral neuropathy. We prospectively studied

316 consecutive patients with surface stimu

lation and recording, in comparison with 90 control subjects. A total

of 310 patients were found to have lower limb sensory NCS

abnormalities. In these patients, the rate of detection of peripheral

neuropathy with superficial peroneal NCS (88.5%) was significantly

higher (P<0.001) compared with sural NCS (75%).

The superficial peroneal NCS appeared to have a higher detection rate

for peripheral neuropathy in our study, and its study can be

adjunctive to sural NCS.