PEDIATRICS Vol. 34 No. 5 November 1964, pp. 599-600
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ELECTRODIAGNOSIS OF NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE

EDWARD H. LAMBERT M.D.1

1 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

THE past decade has seen a number of the techniques of clinical neurophysiology come into common use in the diagnosis of neuromuscular disease. One of these is the measurement of conduction velocity of motor nerves. Conduction velocity of nerves was only of academic interest until 1948 when a simple method for making reliable measurements in man was described and proved useful as a test of nerve function. It is now a frequent subject of clinical investigation and in many laboratories measurement of conduction velocity has become a routine diagnostic procedure. A review and extension of this work by Dunn and his associates, published in this issue of Pediatrics, emphasizes the importance of such measurements to pediatrics wherein objective evidence of functional impairment of nerves is of particular importance because the clinical examination may be so unsatisfactory. Conduction velocity of peripheral nerves, measurable quickly and simply, should be standard practice in the study of neuromuscular disorders in infants and children.