title: An electromyographic evaluation of motor complications in thoracic herpes zoster.
abstract: Motor complications in thoracic herpes zoster were evaluated in 52 patients by electromyographic examination of the paraspinal muscles. At the initial EMG examination, abnormal findings were observed in 18 patients (35%). In 8 patients the myomers involved coincided in location with affected dermatomes, while in 10 patients, in addition to the involvement of myomers corresponding to affected dermatomes, there also appeared an involvement of one or more contiguous myomers not corresponding to affected dermatomes. Our study demonstrated that motor involvement in thoracic HZ is much more common than previously suggested and its incidence (35%) appears to be greater than that reported in both cervical and lumbosacral HZ.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nervous and Mental Diseases, University of Siena, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cioni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giannini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Passero
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Paradiso
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fimiani
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Battistini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010291:Paresis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology*