title: Sensory nerve conduction in the spinal muscular atrophies.
abstract: Sensory conduction velocities were determined in the sural or median nerve in 16 patients with spinal muscular atrophy of the severe (Werdnig-Hoffmann), intermediate, or mild (Kugelberg-Welander) forms. In all cases there were normal sensory conduction velocities  in one of the nerves tested, although sural nerve responses were not obtained in the four youngest patients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009046:Motor Neurons; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009431:Neural Conduction; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*