RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The H-reflex of the flexor carpi radialis muscle; a study in controls and radiation-induced brachial plexus lesions.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 1098
OP 1101
DO 10.1136/jnnp.47.10.1098
VO 47
IS 10
A1 B W Ongerboer de Visser
A1 R J Schimsheimer
A1 A A Hart
YR 1984
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/47/10/1098.abstract
AB H-reflexes of the flexor carpi radialis muscle were studied in 52 controls and 25 cancer patients with radiation-induced brachial plexopathy. It was found that H-reflex conduction velocity (H-RCV) decreased with increasing age. This was not true for H-reflex latency (H-RL) and inter-latency times. There were no H-RCV and latency differences between age-matched male and female subjects. In the affected arm the reflex was absent in nine patients and delayed in 16 patients in whom H-RCV was decreased in 13 patients. Three patients showed large H-RL differences which were also notable features in median nerve disease in the region of the brachial plexus.