title: [The tendon test of the tibial nerve in Hansen's disease].
abstract: Seventeen patients, presenting Hansen's disease, were studied by the Tendon-test. Nine presented pathological answers and 4 did not answer at all, probably due to serious damage. So the amount of pathological answers reached to 76.5% (13 patients). On the other hand, the answer of two patients was considered within the limits and they were classified with the normal answering patients that reached to 23.5% (4 patients). In order to find out if the tibial nerves are also injured simultaneously wit the ulnar and the median ones, it is advisable to employ this method in a larger number of patients and in a different social-geographical environment.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009431:Neural Conduction; D012026:Reflex, Stretch; D013979:Tibial Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology*
vernacular_title: Tendon-test del nervio tibial en el mal de Hansen.