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Table 1 Peripheral nerve involvement assessed by nerve conduction studies (NCS) in HSP patients

From: Electrophysiological characterisation of motor and sensory tracts in patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP)

Nerve

N

Percentage of patients with abnormal

  

NCS

DML

NCV

Amplitude

F wave latency

Motor tibial nerve

128

33.9%

17.2%

22.7%

10.2%

8.7%

Motor ulnar nerve

128

23.8%

11.8%

4.7%

0.8%

15.9%

Sensory sural nerve

128

24.2%

-

21.9%

14.8%

-

Sensory radial nerve

100

36.0%

-

17.0%

31.0%

-

  1. N: number of patients examined, DML: distal motor latency, NCV: nerve conduction velocity.
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Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

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