Electromyographic diagnosis of leprosy

Abstract

SUMMARY -Eighty untreated patients suspected to have leprosy were submitted to neuro¬ physiological examination and later compared with the clinical diagnosis. Among the patients who had leprosy confirmed, 98% had EMG abnormalities.Motor and sensory amplitude reduction was the earliest and the most frequent abnormality. Low conduction velocity of the ulnar nerve across the elbow was present in over 55% ot the patients.A «mosaic» peripheral polyneuropathy was the most characteristic finding, and seems to be hel…