title: [Extensive, continuous fasciculations of the lower leg as an isolated symptom--a clinical and electromyography follow-up].
abstract: 10 patients suffering from a widespread continuous fasciculation of the lower extremities without any other neurological signs and symptoms are presented. A follow up study of 6 of these patients could be done. The fasciculation potentials were polyphasic with changing shape from discharge to discharge and appeared irregularly in most of the muscles of the legs. In 5 patients no change of clinical and neurophysiological signs could be detected over the period of observation, whereas in one patient a sensory polyneuropathy was evident in course of time. The findings illustrate that a state of widespread continuous fasciculations without other signs and symptoms is not predicative for the development of a amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
authors.affiliation: Neurologische Kinik der Technischen Universität München.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bischoff
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klingelhöfer
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Conrad
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004576:Electromyography; D005207:Fasciculation / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Ausgedehntes, andauerndes Unterschenkelfaszikulieren als isoliertes Symptom--eine klinische und elektromyographische Verlaufsuntersuchung.