title: Late responses as aids to diagnosis in peripheral neuropathy.
abstract: The usefulness of performing late response studies for the detection of peripheral nerve dysfunction has been demonstrated. It has been shown that significant prolongation of the minimal latencies of the H reflex and the F response is present at a time when conventional methods of motor and sensory conduction do not show an abnormality in individual patients. Abnormalities of late responses have been shown to occur in a variety of peripheral neuropathies with "axonal" as well as "segmental demyelination" type of underlying pathology.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D006181:H-Reflex; D006801:Humans; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009470:Muscle Spindles / Q000503:physiopathology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012023:Reflex, Monosynaptic; D013979:Tibial Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology