Sensory and motor coduction in chronic carbon disulphide poisoning.
The greater decrease of conduction velocity in sensory than in motor fibres of the peroneal, median and ulnar nerves (particularly in the digital segments) found in patients with chronic carbon disulphide poisoning, permitted the diagnosis of polyneuropathy to be made in the subclinical stage, even while the conduction in motor fibres was still within normal limits. A process of axonal degeneration is presumed to underlie occurrence of neuropathy consequent to carbon disulphide poisoning.
D002246:Carbon Disulfide / Q000506:poisoning*; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D009046:Motor Neurons; D009431:Neural Conduction; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010543:Peroneal Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D011115:Polyneuropathies / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014459:Ulnar Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology
D002246:Carbon Disulfide