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A clinical neurophysiologic study of tropical spastic paraparesis

✍ Scribed by Dr. Albert C. Ludolph; Dr. Jacques Hugon; Dr. Gustavo C. Román; Dr. Peter S. Spencer; Dr. Bruce S. Schoenberg

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
682 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
0148-639X

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✦ Synopsis

During a field study in the Seychelles Islands, 19 patients with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) were evaluated electrophysiologically. Methods of assessment included motor and sensory nerve conduction studies, electromyography, and analysis of the somatosensory evoked potentials after stimulation of the tibial and median nerves. The results showed that the most prominent feature of the disease, a spastic paraparesis, is accompanied by subclinical involvement of spinal sensory pathways and a comparatively minor peripheral sensorimotor polyneuropathy.

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