Keywords Neuropathy, mononeuropathy, pediatric, median, ulnar, peroneal, tibial, sciatic Introduction Mononeuropathies are rare in children, accounting for fewer than 10% of pediatric referrals for electromyographic (EMG) testing. This is…
Keywords Peripheral neuropathy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, electromyography Introduction The term peripheral neuropathy refers to a disorder affecting one or more components of the peripheral nervous system, specifically axons,…
Keywords Alacrima, anhidrosis, autonomic dysfunction, baroreflex failure, congenital insensitivity to pain, familial dysautonomia (FD), hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies (HSAN), insensitivity to pain, orthostatic hypotension Introduction The hereditary sensory…
Keywords CMT, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP), HNPP, distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN), distal spinal muscular atrophy (dSMA), PMP22, CMT1, CMT2, CMT4, CMTX, MPZ, Connexin…
Keywords Asymmetric crying facies, Bell’s palsy, blink responses, brainstem, facial EMG, facial nerve, facial microsomia, Lyme disease, Moebius syndrome Introduction Facial palsy is one of the most frequent mononeuropathies…
Keywords Nerve root, radiculopathy, plexus, plexopathy, brachial, lumbosacral Anatomy In total, there are 31 spinal nerve root pairs: 8 in relation to the 7 cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic, 5…
Keywords Stiff man, stiff person, stiff child, autoimmune, GAD antibody, GAD65 antibody, diabetes, thyroid, glycine Introduction The stiff-man syndrome (SMS, also known as stiff-person syndrome) is a rare central…
Keywords Spinal muscular atrophy, 5q SMA, non-5q SMAs, survival of motor neuron protein, Werdnig-Hoffman disease, Dubowitz disease, Kugelberg-Welander disease Introduction Spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) are genetic disorders that are…
Keywords Poliomyelitis, vaccine associated poliomyelitis, post-polio syndrome, Hopkins syndrome, rabies, tetanus Infantile Poliomyelitis Historical Background To many physicians in the developed world, poliomyelitis serves as a dramatic example of…
Keywords Juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, jALS, ALS, degenerative motor neuron disease, distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN), distal SMA, Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere (BVVL) syndrome, Madras Motor Neuron Disease (MMND), hereditary spastic paraparesis…
