A 19-year-old man with an asymptomatic history of recreational gasoline vapor inhalation presented with subacute progressive quadriparesis. For 2 weeks, he had intensely inhaled Colemanா fuel oil vapor, which contains n-hexane. Nerve conduction studies including near-nerve needle stimulation showed
Partial conduction blocks in N-hexane neuropathy
✍ Scribed by Carlos Pastore; Virginia Izura; Dolores Marhuenda; María-José Prieto; José Roel; Antonio Cardona
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 62 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-639X
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