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Ultrasonography and electrophysiological study of median nerve in patients with essential tremor

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  • Hye Lim Lee
  • Ji-sun Kim
  • Hanjun Kim
  • Il soo Kim
  • Jae-whan Kim
  • Ye-eun Kim
  • Seong-beom Koh

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Essential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder characterized by postural or kinetic tremor. We aimed to evaluate median nerve enlargement in patients with ET using ultrasonography (USG). Thirty-eight hands from 19 patients with ET and 24 hands from 13 controls underwent nerve conduction studies (NCS) and USG at the wrist. Tremor severity was measured using the Fahn–Tolosa–Marin Tremor Rating Scale (FTM-TRS). The median nerve cross sectional area (mCSA) in USG and NCS parameters were compared using ANCOVA. We evaluated the correlation between mCSA and NCS parameters or FTM-TRS scores using linear regression analysis. mCSA was significantly larger (p

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  • Hye Lim Lee & Ji-sun Kim & Hanjun Kim & Il soo Kim & Jae-whan Kim & Ye-eun Kim & Seong-beom Koh, 2019. "Ultrasonography and electrophysiological study of median nerve in patients with essential tremor," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(4), pages 1-9, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0215750
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215750
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