Table 2. Comparing clinical versus electrophysiology in leprous neuropathy.
Nerve type tested | Nerves examined clinically | Clinically abnormal (thick) | Total nerves tested-EP | EP abnormal nerves |
Clinical/EP
comparison
(Chi-squire) |
p -Value | Statistical significance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abbreviation: EP, electrophysiological. | |||||||
Total nerves | 1,008 | 132 | 504 | 215 | 164.40 | 0.0000 | Yes |
Ulnar sensory | 72 | 27 | 72 | 46 | 9.0019 | 0.0027 | Yes |
Ulnar motor | 72 | 27 | 72 | 38 | 2.8043 | 0.0940 | No |
Median sensory | 72 | 2 | 72 | 33 | 33.920 | 0.0000 | Yes |
Median motor | 72 | 2 | 72 | 10 | 4.4545 | 0.0348 | Yes |
Sural | 72 | 9 | 72 | 14 | 0.8279 | 0.3628 | No |
Peroneal sensory | 72 | 15 | 72 | 16 | 0.0411 | 0.8393 | No |
Peroneal motor | 72 | 18 | 72 | 26 | 1.603 | 0.2600 | No |
Posttibial | 72 | 9 | 72 | 32 | 16.502 | 0.0000 | Yes |