Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Axillary nerve conduction changes in hemiplegia. | Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury BioMed Central Research article Axillary nerve conduction changes in hemiplegia Atzmon Tsur 1 and Haim Ring2 Open Access Address Rehabilitation Department Western Galilee Hospital POB 21 Nahariya Israel and 2Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital POB 3 Ra anana and Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel-Aviv University Tel Aviv-Yafo Israel Email AtzmonTsur - Haim Ring - haimr@ Corresponding author Published 17 December 2008 Received 18 June 2008 Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008 3 26 doi l 749-7221-3-26 Accepted I7 December 2008 This article is available from http content 3 1 26 2008 Tsur and Ring licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Aim To prove the possibility of axillary nerve conduction changes following shoulder subluxation due to hemiplegia in order to investigate the usefulness of screening nerve conduction studies in patients with hemiplegia for finding peripheral neuropathy. Methods Forty-four shoulders of twenty-two patients with a first-time stroke having flaccid hemiplegia were tested 43 12 days after stroke onset. Wasting and weakness of the deltoid were present in the involved side. Motor nerve conduction latency and compound muscle action potential CMAP amplitude were measured along the axillary nerve comparing the paralyzed to the sound shoulder. The stimulation was done at the Erb s point whilst the recording needle electrode was inserted into the deltoid muscle 4 cm directly beneath the lateral border of the acromion. Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare the motor conduction between the sound and the paralytic shoulder. Mann-Whitney test .
