Abstract
Here we report median and common peroneal nerve SEPs in a patient with tabes dorsalis. SEPs were within normal limits following median nerve stimulation, but of prolonged latency for common peroneal nerve. This was in keeping with clinical findings of posterior column involvement confined to the lumbosacral tract and with pathological features of tabetic neurosyphilis.
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Gli autori riportano le caratteristiche dei potenziali evocati somatosensoriali del nervo mediano e peroneo comune in un paziente affetto da tabe dorsale.
I potenziali evocati somatosensoriali sono risultati nei limiti della norma stimolando il nervo mediano ma di latenza aumentata per il nervo peroneo comune. Ciò risultava in accordo sia con le caratteristiche cliniche di segni di interessamento dei cordoni posteriori limitato al tratto lombosacrale che con le caratteristiche anatomopatologiche della neurosifilide.
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Di Lazzaro, V., Restuccia, D., Lo Monaco, M. et al. Somatosensory evoked potentials in a case of neurosyphilis. Ital J Neuro Sci 11, 309–312 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02333866
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