Sensory conduction study in chronic sensory ataxic neuropathy.

AUTOR(ES)

Kachi, T

RESUMO

Sensory conduction was studied in six patients with chronic sensory ataxic neuropathy of an idiopathic type and associated with Sjögren's syndrome. Motor nerve conduction velocities were normal in most cases, but sensory nerve potentials could not be evoked in a routine peripheral nerve conduction study. Cortical and cervical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and evoked potentials from Erb's point were barely recorded by median nerve stimulation at the wrist. When the median nerve was stimulated at more proximal points, clear potentials were recorded from Erb's point, but cortical SEPs were still hardly elicited. Thus the sensory nerves are centrally and peripherally involved in this condition, and the involvement is more prominent in the distal portion in the peripheral nerve. These findings suggest that central-peripheral distal axonopathy is a process involved in this illness and that the dorsal root ganglia may be primarily involved, in accord with previous pathological studies.

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