Early impairment of somatosensory evoked potentials in very young children with achondroplasia with foramen magnum stenosis
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Anna Elsa Maria Allegri; D.P. Rossi; Simona Martelli; Mariasavina Severino; S. Fornarino; Angela Pistorio; Laura Doria Lamba; Paola Lanteri
- Source
- Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 59:192-198
- Subject
- Male
0301 basic medicine
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Constriction, Pathologic
Achondroplasia
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Developmental Neuroscience
Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory
Internal medicine
Reaction Time
medicine
Humans
Foramen Magnum
Child
Tibial nerve
Foramen magnum
medicine.diagnostic_test
Receiver operating characteristic
business.industry
Age Factors
Infant
Lumbar spinal stenosis
Magnetic resonance imaging
Anatomy
medicine.disease
Spinal cord
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Electric Stimulation
030104 developmental biology
medicine.anatomical_structure
ROC Curve
Spinal Cord
Somatosensory evoked potential
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Cardiology
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Tibial Nerve
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
- Language
- ISSN
- 0012-1622
Aim To evaluate the contribution of somatosensory evoked potentials after median nerve (MN-SEPs) and posterior tibial nerve (PTN-SEPs) stimulation in functional assessment of cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis in children with achondroplasia. Method We reviewed MN-SEPs, PTN-SEPs, and spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations performed in 58 patients with achondroplasia (25 males, 33 females; age range 21d–16y 10mo; mean age 4y 3mo [SD 4y 1mo]). Patients were subdivided into four age categories