MERALGIA PARESTHETICA - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC STUDY

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 60  (1) , 30-31
Abstract
Conduction velocity of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve was studied orthodromically. The mean value in 20 control subjects was 57.51 .+-. 8.61 (SD) m/s. In 9 patients with meralgia paresthetica, the sensory nerve condition in the symptomatic nerves was definitely abnormal: nerve potential was absent in 6 and condition velocity was slow in 3. In 1 patient, a possible asymptomatic entrapment neuropathy was suggested by this test. Conduction velocity of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve can be used as an objective diagnostic aid in meralgia paresthetica.

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