Table 5.
Comparison between clinical examination for detection of neural thickening and electroneuromyographic evaluation of seropositive household contacts of leprosy patients.
| Electroneuromyography | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Abnormal | Total | |||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | Kappa | p-value | ||
| Neural thickening | Normal | 235 | 65.1 | 63 | 17.5 | 298 | 82.6 | 0.132 | 0.011 |
| Abnormal | 41 | 11.3 | 22 | 6.1 | 63 | 17.4 | |||
| 276 | 85 | 361 | 100 | ||||||